Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Mike Wilson wrote:
>
> > Jason Orendorff wrote:
> >> Eeuuurgh. In that case, what David-Sarah said.
> >
> > What did he say?
>
> He said "don't do that", to paraphrase. Full quote:
>
> "The 'with' can be in non-strict code, which is perfectly
> adequate for implementing a backward-compatible misfeature
> (the peculiar scope chain of a DOM0 event handler)."
Thanks. I seem to have missed this reply. Where did it appear?
> The nested DOM object scopes for event handlers was something
> I did to allow brevity in inline event handler code. On balance
> it was a mistake, but it was so popular that the VXML spec
> actually goes nuts and reifies nested XML tags as objects on
> the scope chain for its ES scripting model!
:-)
I'm sure many agree it is a confusing feature that is best
not depended upon, but well the topic here was emulating the
browser in pure JS. Anyway, if |with| will always be available in
non-strict code, well, I guess it's no problem.
BTW, the DOM0 scope chain augmentation is now finally being
specified for all time, as of HTML5:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#event-handler-attributesBest regards
Mike
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