On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Brendan Eich<bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: > >> Isn't it funny how something that seems small can have such a large >> effect? This misfeature doesn't seem to have a good role or use cases. >> It seems a bit like the callable collections that MSIE started. > > Agreed, at a gut-feel (churning, I mean) level. > > >> If HTML 5 author(s) only had the hindsight to see the problems with >> their inventions. I don't expect much at this point. > > Careful with pronouns -- HTML 5 spec writers did not create nested scopes > for event handlers, I did. They are just paving this particular cowpath, > droppings and all. :-)
Of course, obviously the feature came long before HTML 5. I'm frustrated by what I see happening with HTML 5 in general. At a gut level, you know, some of the other things in HTML 5, new things, feels the same. To me. Garrett _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
