Remove webkitBeforeTextInserted & webkitEditableContentChanged JS events

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Feature removal
Status: Removed (Chrome 91)
Intent stage: Removed

Summary

The webkitBeforeTextInserted and webkitEditableContentChanged JS events are Blink internal events and are non standard events. There are better replacement of these events which Browser vendors have been actively working on such as Input events(https://w3c.github.io/input-events/).

Motivation

webkitBeforeTextInserted & webkitEditableContentChanged JS events are Blink internal and non standard events. Browser vendors have been actively working on Input Events(https://w3c.github.io/input-events/) which is a much better replacement for these non-standard events.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/input-events/
Firefox: No signal — N/A as these events are internal to Webkit
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=382814

Explainers: N/A

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