Re: [DOM4] EventTarget as first class citizen

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Jake Verbaten <raynos2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> For 1, I don't know what that would look like, but something like
> >> ECMAScript's Object.create() would be a nice pattern:
> >>
> >> var et = EventTarget.create(someObject);
> >
> > We don't actually need that, we just need to glare at browser vendors
> until
> > they implement the IDL. Once that is done then
> >
> > `var et = Object.create(EventTarget.prototype)`
> >
> > Should "just work" assuming the methods on EventTarget.prototype are
> generic
> > and flexible enough to work on any object.
>
> I don't see how they could be. Where would the functions store the
> internal state such as the set of event listeners for example?
>

"Append an event listener to the associated list of event listeners" DOM4
does not specify how the associated list of event listeners should be
stored. There are a few candidates that can make this generically work with
objects

 - as properties this._events on the object
 - as a WeakMap or Map structure
 - as some clever association that works generically done in the C++ layer

Making this association generic should be the only thing neccessary for
these methods to "just work" on objects

Received on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:00:46 UTC