Re: [DOMCore] change EventListener to [NoInterfaceObject]?

On 6/17/11 12:09 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:01:48 +0200, Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/15/2011 07:14 AM, David Flanagan wrote:
>>> EventListener is declared to be a [Callback], but unlike the [Callback]
>>> types in HTML, it does not have the [NoInterfaceObject] attribute. This
>>> seems to mean that implementations must create a useless EventListener
>>> property in the global namespace. And by my reading of WebIDL, we're
>>> also supposed to have EventListener.prototype.handleEvent, even though
>>> no host object will ever be created that inherits that method.
>>>
>>> Firefox 4 defines an EventListener object, but it has no prototype
>>> property and doesn't seem to be good for anything.
>>>
>>> Current versions of Chrome and Safari simply do not define
>>> EventListener. I think this is the way to go.
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/rev/a48d3dccf595
>
> Can we also make it FunctionOnly in ECMAScript?

That is, make this not work?

   node.addEventListener({ handleEvent: function() { /* something */ } },
                         "eventname", false);

I'm pretty sure this pattern is used on the web.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 17 June 2011 17:05:26 UTC