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Bug 18347 - Maybe this element would make more sense to developers familiar with JS to label this element as "event". This section is also rife with non-native web terminology and is confusing. This also seems to be an attempt to insert "js as html" where we had CS
Summary: Maybe this element would make more sense to developers familiar with JS to la...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-21 15:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-26 03:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-21 15:18:56 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-command-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-command-element

Comment:
Maybe this element would make more sense to developers familiar with JS to
label this element as "event".	This section is also rife with non-native web
terminology and is confusing.  This also seems to be an attempt to insert "js
as html" where we had CSS as HTML and subsequently abstracted it unless it
also aims to be an interface for other programming languages.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-26 03:58:38 UTC 
Can you elaborate?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-26 03:59:06 UTC 
(Might be best to send this feedback as e-mail to the WHATWG list for more in-depth discussion.)