Re: [1.2T-LC] evt and event (ISSUE-2055)

Cameron McCormack:
> Yes, we need to keep both 'evt' and 'event' working.

Some additional points of interest:

In Opera and Firefox, both 'evt' and 'event' are bound inside an SVG
event listener attribute (e.g. <rect onclick="…">), but only 'event' is
in HTML ones.

In Opera, 'event' is bound in an event listener registered with
addEventListener() even if the function was declared with no arguments
(this applies to SVG and HTML elements):

  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <span id='s'>click me</span>
  <script>
    document.getElementById('s').addEventListener
      ('click', function() { alert(event) }, false);
  </script>

and 'evt' isn’t bound.

In Firefox, neither 'event' or 'evt' are bound for listeners registered
with addEventListener().

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Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2008 01:55:28 UTC