I agree, also it is trivial for a developer or library to provide aliases to provide the shortened form (including supporting listenOnce) -- additionally "unlisten" is incredibly awkward sounding :D --Oliver On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Sergey Ilinsky wrote: > Starting shortening member names can open the Pandora box. What > about getElementsByTagName, querySelector etc.? I think at this > point of time it is better to avoid such an initiative. > > Sergey/ > > > > > --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org > > wrote: > >> From: Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org >> > >> Subject: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for >> addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] >> To: public-webapps@w3.org >> Date: Thursday, 27 August, 2009, 2:09 AM >> >> ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for >> addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] >> >> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/99 >> >> Raised by: Doug Schepers >> On product: DOM3 Events >> >> Alex Russell suggests that since addEventListener() and >> removeEventListener() are so commonly used, it would be good >> to add a lump of syntactic sugar by aliasing them with >> shorter names: listen() and unlisten(). He also >> suggests adding listenOnce() as a further shortcut method: >> >> <http://www.w3.org/mid/6fc58d0d0904241431n290e8166m1e126cc02e735564@mail.gmail.com >> > >> >> >> >> > > > >Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:01:27 GMT
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