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Bug 14463 - Had some trouble locating this section. I was looking at window.on* and trying to figure out how those event handlers are called. Maybe somewhere near by you could link to this section. It's only liked in one place.
Summary: Had some trouble locating this section. I was looking at window.on* and tryin...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-14 14:39 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-24 23:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-14 14:39:21 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webappapis.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-event-handler-processing-algorithm
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-event-handler-processing-algorithm

Comment:
Had some trouble locating this section. I was looking at window.on* and trying
to figure out how those event handlers are called. Maybe somewhere near by you
could link to this section. It's only liked in one place.

Posted from: 84.208.50.132
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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-14 18:26:25 UTC 
If you look up window.onload in the IDL, it links to the table that defines it as an event handler, where the term "event handler" links straight to the section with the definition you're looking for.

I don't really understand how to improve this... could you elaborate?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-24 23:07:28 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 1