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Given how common event handler IDL attributes are in the platform (i.e., onwhateva using the EventHandler interface), it would be good that was taken out of HTML5 and put into the DOM spec. This would be a good compliment to having EventTarget and Event, defined in DOM.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16477 ***