The old API is confusing. We can do better, so we should.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Olli Pettay <[email protected]>wrote: > On 03/12/2013 12:34 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Alex Russell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thoughts? >>> >> >> My main thought is that it's a pita to change the API at this time now >> it's unprefixed everywhere and we've been encouraging developers to >> use it in favor of mutation events. If Adam/Rafael/Olli/Jonas are >> willing to update WebKit/Gecko though I guess I don't really care. >> >> >> > We could keep the old behavior and extend it to support types. > But since the change isn't backward compatible (scripts using types > wouldn't work in > older browsers), I'd like to understand the need for the change. > > -Olli >
