- From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:59:32 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Luiz Agostini <luiz.agostini@openbossa.org>, www-style@w3.org, marcosc@opera.com
On May 27, 2010, at 1:33 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:10:04 +0200, Luiz Agostini <luiz.agostini@openbossa.org> wrote: >> Could we use the names addMediaListener, removeMediaListener and matchMedia and accept media query lists? > > I rather not change the name of matchMedium() yet again. Unless you get buy-in from Simon Fraser somehow :-) Making everything accept lists could work though. It would be better to change it to matchMedia() now, rather than later, since not many people are using this yet. I hope we can avoid more renames, though. Or, if we accept media query lists, maybe it should just be be matchQueryList(), which I think is easier to read than the awkward "matchMedium". matchQuery() would also work OK. Similarly, perhaps addMediumListener() should be addQueryListener() etc. As for whether to accept lists, I can imagine this making an implementation that tries to be efficient more complex. But I imagine that most implementations would just re-evaluate all the query lists every time something "interesting" changes. > If we do that we will need to specify how to compare media query lists. A >> preliminary suggestion is: > > Can't we just order them in specified order? That's how it currently works. Though I guess it would be nice if "all, not all" and "not all, all" are the same... > > > At this point some thoughts from implementors would be nice. I'm a little concerned about using a BooleanCallback here. I agree that there's an issue where the serialized query may not match what was originally used to add the listener, but I think having some context in the callback is necessary. This allows people writing OOP JS to have a single object with a handleEvent() function which can act as a listener for multiple queries. This would be slightly easier if there were an easy way to re-serialize a query (i.e. to convert it to its canonical form) via some API. A slightly hacky alternative would be for addMediumListener() to return a token (like setTimeout()) that can be used to identify which listener is it, and gets passed to the callback. Simon
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