- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:14:20 +0000
- To: Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>
- Cc: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, Clint Hill <clint.hill@gmail.com>, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, Innovimax W3C <innovimax+w3c@gmail.com>, "public-nextweb@w3.org" <public-nextweb@w3.org>
On Monday, December 17, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
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> I went through event dispatching, trying to find an example that wasn't dispatching on a DOM element, and couldn't find one; after thinking through the implications, I couldn't come up with a reason that building my own would have negative implications, and it seemed much easier (and lower overhead) than creating a fake element. I could easily be wrong, but I was trying to think about it, at least. :)
Ok, I remember now what had screwed me in the past: I'd tried to extend DOMEvent and then tried to dispatch that as an event. like:
function MyCustomEvent(){}
MyCustomEvent.prototype = new DOMEvent();
var e = new MyCustomEvent();
document.body.dispatchEvent(e);
Of course, that fails spectacularly (though it shouldn't if Host Objects were not magical).
So, I'm really sorry Chris for making you waste time thinking about that.
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Marcos Caceres
Received on Monday, 17 December 2012 20:14:56 UTC