Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Mike Wilson wrote: > > > Jason Orendorff wrote: > >> Eeuuurgh. In that case, what David-Sarah said. > > > > What did he say? > > He said "don't do that", to paraphrase. Full quote: > > "The 'with' can be in non-strict code, which is perfectly > adequate for implementing a backward-compatible misfeature > (the peculiar scope chain of a DOM0 event handler)."
Thanks. I seem to have missed this reply. Where did it appear? > The nested DOM object scopes for event handlers was something > I did to allow brevity in inline event handler code. On balance > it was a mistake, but it was so popular that the VXML spec > actually goes nuts and reifies nested XML tags as objects on > the scope chain for its ES scripting model! :-) I'm sure many agree it is a confusing feature that is best not depended upon, but well the topic here was emulating the browser in pure JS. Anyway, if |with| will always be available in non-strict code, well, I guess it's no problem. BTW, the DOM0 scope chain augmentation is now finally being specified for all time, as of HTML5: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#event-handler-attributes Best regards Mike _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
