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Normalized onChange event?

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In React, the onChange event is normalized across browsers (at least as far back as IE9) so that it fires any time the content of an input changes (e.g. when the user types, backspaces, deletes, etc). Is there a similarly normalized event in preact?

Thanks!

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developitcommented, Mar 7, 2016

The backspace/delete issue is only in IE9, the remainder of issues are for making checkboxes and radio buttons magically fire onChange handlers using onClick (not a logical choice IMO, since onChange works fine for uncontrolled components and onClick works fine for controlled components), and for some oddities around <select> inputs that I have yet to observe in Preact (not sure why).

Here’s React’s onChange abstraction: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/src/renderers/dom/client/eventPlugins/ChangeEventPlugin.js

Since Preact tries to avoid browser hacks and legacy APIs whenever possible, I thinking we should move this issue into preact-compat, so we can track progress on it there. preact-compat doesn’t currently have any event normalization, but I think we’re going to need at least a rudimentary solution in order to have consistency when pulling in third party libraries.

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developitcommented, Mar 7, 2016

@chrisdavies I’m going to close this issue since there is now developit/preact-compat#20. Cheers!