Re: [whatwg] HTMLElement.onreadystatechange

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, David Flanagan wrote:

 The spec says that every HTMLElement has an onreadystatechange idl 
 attribute. But then it never says anything about firing readystatechange 
 events at elements, only at the Document.
 
 Can it be removed from HTMLElement, or does it need to be there for web 
 compatibility?

For consistency, all the event handler attributes on HTMLDocument and 
HTMLElement are the same now.

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[whatwg] HTMLElement.onreadystatechange

[David Flanagan]

The spec says that every HTMLElement has an onreadystatechange idl 
attribute.  But then it never says anything about firing 
readystatechange events at elements, only at the Document.


Can it be removed from HTMLElement, or does it need to be there for web 
compatibility?


David