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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with FF
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:11:19 -0600
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Martin said:

>>> Well inside the onkeypress attribute's event handler code Mozilla
>>> provides you with an "event" object (passed in as an argument)
>>
>> This appears to be ubiquitous among DOM-supporting browsers (down to
>> Netscape 4.0), but I am not aware of a public standard or draft to 
>> specify
>> it.  If anything, this feature should become part of the HTML5 Web
>> Applications API.
>
> I think 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#event-handler-content-attributes 
> attempts to covert this: "...
>
> Using the script execution environment created above, create a function 
> object (as defined in ECMAScript edition 5 section 13.2 Creating Function 
> Objects), with:
>
> Parameter list FormalParameterList
>
>     ...
>     Otherwise
>         Let the function have a single argument called event.
>
> ..."

Martin:

    I'll try that later today.

Thank you for the suggestion !

-Mel Smith