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Re: [DOM Level 3 Events] optionality of the capture argument in addEventListener/removeEventListener

From: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:25:46 +1000
Message-ID: <AANLkTinuL+kmUw8fu45KoOdsT4cZcL82K5c_nL3L58C_@mail.gmail.com>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, Sergey Ilinsky <sergey@ilinsky.com>, www-dom@w3.org 
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:00:37 +0200, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There are many cases where leaving out that required 3rd argument
>> just fails miserably.
>>
>> Wish it weren't so. Afaik, it'll definitely break things.
>>
>
> In the short term, sure. In the long term all browsers will support it. We
> should definitely make this change.


WebKit currently allows you to leave the third argument out. I have never
heard of us having bugs as a result.

Ojan
Received on Monday, 27 September 2010 06:27:05 GMT

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