293751 - event object not available inside onevent code

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[simon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050417 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050417 Firefox/1.0+

the event object, used to get the details of an event, does not exist inside
inline on-event code.
example:

this correctly shows shift status:
<h1 onclick="this.textContent=event.shiftKey">SVG 3D Test</h1>  


but you get error in SVG:
<text  onclick="this.textContent=event.shiftKey;">Hello, out there</text>
"Error: event is not defined"

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

Does it work in XML (in general)?

Comment 2

[tor]

This is due to the SVG WG calling the event object "evt".