Re: [whatwg/dom] Consider adding Promise-based API for listerning event (#333) from Anne van Kesteren on 2017-03-16 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from March 2017)

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 06:51:24 -0700
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I think the main problem with this and why I'm going to close it is timing. The promise "callback" is called too late to be able to use `preventDefault()`, which makes it not a great pattern for event listeners.

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