Re: why not MediaQueryList.onchange

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:34 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2014-04-16 15:21 -0400, Elliott Sprehn wrote:
>> lists = copy of mediaLists.
>> for each list in lists:
>>   eval media query of list.
>> for each list in lists:
>>   if list is dirty:
>>     dispatch change event on list.
>
> I don't think there's any substantive difference in complexity
> there; whether the copying is done at the start or inside the first
> for loop doesn't really make much difference.
>
> (On the other hand, I don't recall how much complexity it adds to
> make something be an EventTarget.  That said, I'm fine with using
> events because they fit with the platform [1]; I just think the
> complexity argument is not relevant.)
>
> -David
>
> [1] Although I'm not sure to what extent events work well as a
>     mechanism for notifications about events internal to the
>     platform rather than notifications of changes external to the
>     platform.  For example, mutation events didn't work out all that
>     well.

Mutation events were bad for several reasons unrelated to "they're
events", which don't apply to MQ change events.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:36:22 UTC