Hi, Anne-
Anne van Kesteren wrote (on 9/10/10 7:17 AM):
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:09:38 +0200, Web Applications Working Group Issue
Tracker <[email protected]> wrote:
'mousewheel' was later dropped based on feedback from implementers
(Mozilla, Microsoft), who expressed a reluctance to implement
'mousewheel', and a lack of useful interoperability and concern that
any change to improve interop would likely break a number of sites.
However, the group may wish to consider adding it again, see:
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010JulSep/0103.html
Are you saying Internet Explorer no longer supports the mousewheel
event? The reason Opera / Chrome / Safari support the event is because
Internet Explorer has it too and is needed for compatibility. Mozilla
indeed does not have it, but they have DOMMouseScroll or some such.
I'm not making any claims about who will or won't support mousewheel.
I'm just trying to state what I recall of the rationale for removing it
from DOM3 Events. I don't feel terribly strongly about it either way,
in any case.
See also my reply on the thread on www-dom:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010JulSep/0126.html
Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
