onwheel in GlobalEventHandlers

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 61)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Previously we had onwheel attributes as part of the Element. Now we are moving them to GlobalEventHandlers to make them consistent with the other on'event' attributes.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-html51-20160602/webappapis.html#globaleventhandlers-globaleventhandlers
Firefox: In development
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/730030

Docs: https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/pull/6165 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onwheel

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