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Re: [Bug 198595] event.target, event.currentTarget and the this object are not set consistently in onload handlers of XMLHttpRequest and XMLDocument (fwd)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:47:23 -0800
Message-ID: <4411F3EB.6020107@sicking.cc>
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: public-webapi@w3.org 

Ian Hickson wrote:
> Please consider this when writing the ECMAScript binding for DOM3 Events.

I believe that we have already addressed this in our meetings. Not sure 
if it has made it into the spec draft yet.

The resolution was that |this| is set to event.currentTarget in 
ECMAScript when a EventListener is given as a function.

When the EventListener is given as an object we should just call the 
handleEvent function on that object and so |this| should point to that 
object.

/ Jonas
Received on Friday, 10 March 2006 21:48:01 GMT

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