- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:47:54 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 2/25/11, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:05:44 +0100, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> OK. Why not expose a generic version of `fire` to the scripting
>> environment?
>
> I do not know of any research (or have done any myself) as to how often
> such a feature might be useful for authors. While firing an event is
> currently a series of steps (using proposed optional arguments):
>
> var e = document.createEvent("Event")
> e.initEvent("test")
> dispatchEvent(e)
>
> ... it is not hugely complicated. (We could even make the argument to
> createEvent optional too and default it to "Event".) I could imagine
> having something like EventTarget.fireEvent(name) but if you want to get a
> little beyond the basics you will remain stuck with creating the event
> yourself.
>
Your example is simple. But some common cases of synth events are
complicated. UI Events aren't so bad but MouseEvents and especially
TouchEvents are a lot of work to synthesize.
Most cases for synth events are for testing -- feature test or unit test.
EventTarget.fireEvent(type[, options]);
--
Garrett
Received on Friday, 25 February 2011 17:51:21 UTC