On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Dave Methvin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Basically, either UAs that currently implement window.event remove it or >> it's clearly required for web compat and hence needs to be specified so >> other UAs can implement it. I don't see any other sane options; do you? > > I'm okay with the first one. Is that a real option? I've never seen anything > but old IE code intentionally use window.event, and it seems like the uses > on SO could easily be from clueless people doing the copy-pasta on very old > code.
If you can get it removed from WebKit or even just Chrome, it might be. If that's not happening soon (e.g. indication of it happening nowish, removal within a month or so), I think we're stuck with this and we'll standardize and move on. Gecko needs at least one "look it breaks in browser X too" leg to stand on, really. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
