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Bug 23530 - Consider having a non-normative section that "defines" all the event names, so that they can hyperlink somewhere
Summary: Consider having a non-normative section that "defines" all the event names, s...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Needs Research
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-10-16 09:48 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-01-08 23:55 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2013-10-16 09:48:41 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webappapis.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#event-handlers-on-elements,-document-objects,-and-window-objects
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#event-handlers-on-elements,-document-objects,-and-window-objects
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
abort and cuechange events are not linked

Posted from: 83.218.67.122 by philipj@opera.com
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Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2013-10-16 09:51:51 UTC 
abort can be linked to http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#event-media-abort

There actually isn't any id for the cuechange event, but it looks like it should simply be added to a section named "The following events fire on TextTrack and HTMLMediaElement objects:" or some such.\

(It would of course be nice to have all the events linked.)
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-10-16 21:17:13 UTC 
Yeah, a lot of the events have no definition (indeed even a lot of the ones that do have a <dfn> don't have a normative definition). Really, event names are just strings, they don't need to be defined normatively. But I agree that it'd be nice to have non-normative text at least for each event...
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-22 17:42:39 UTC 
It would be helpful to have a list of events, categorised by group (e.g. media events, appcache events, user interaction events, etc), with, for each one, whether or not it has a definition already.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-08 23:55:50 UTC 
http://html5.org/r/8385