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layout: meetup
title: Taking the non- out of non-standard.
author: alevine
when: 2019-05-21T19:30:00-05:00
speakers:
  - name: Mike Taylor
    title: Engineering Manager at Mozilla
    avatar: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1042621997/mikeyyyy_400x400.png
    bio: Mike Taylor, who has been called the Carson Daly of Javascript, is an Engineering Manager on the Web Compatibility Team at Mozilla. Come learn more about him, as the author of this blog post does not know that much!
    email:
    homepage:
    twitter: miketaylr
    github: miketaylr
    linkedin:
sponsor:
  name: H-E-B Digital
  url: https://digital.heb.com/
  careerUrl: https://digital.heb.com/join-us/
  location: 2416 East Sixth Street, Austin, TX 78702
venue: indeed
after: lavaca
organizers:
  - lingram
  - astacy
---

Come learn about the weird history of the IE event model, what it took to ship `window.event` (and associated garbage) in Firefox 66, and why we're still talking about this in 2019.
