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Does it happen often? The unintended behavior seems extremely discoverable. “Hey, Google. Why does my button onclick not fire correctly?” “Oh, I need to set this stupid property.”

Would it be nice if this wasn’t necessary? Sure. But browsers aren’t going to break compatibility to fix this quirk.

> we ought to look at that reason and attempt to deal with it

I’m curious how you think we could deal with this aside from education.



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