HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole

Re:HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole by harg on Friday April 29, 2022 @05:03AM (#31203013)

The point I was trying to make is that your second example doesn't prove or disprove anything. You're simply comparing a primitive value. 1 will always equal 1, regardless of which variable it's stored in.

Your first example is enough to conclude that the locally scoped `event` is the same as the one on the window object, due to the pass-by-reference nature of JS objects. The fact that comparing the two returns true means they must be the same object.

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Re:HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole by eatonphil on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:18AM (#31203738)

Yes! But you're still missing the point. There is a big difference because it's a matter of which api you're using.

window.event may be a deprecated api but the thing that sends the event to the string event handler isn't. It doesn't matter that they're the same object it's about apis.

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