On 17 Dec 2012, at 14:35, Jussi Kalliokoski <jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Additionally, MIDIEvent defines a data attribute:
>> > readonly attribute Uint8Array data;
>> >
>> > IIRC, there has also been talk of adding a 'data' attribute directly on the DOMEvent interface (with and any type). Not sure how far along that proposal has come along. Ms2ger, any idea?
>> Argh, seems I confused 'data' with 'detail' (from CustomEvent).. anyway, same thing.
>
> I doubt the "data" attribute is a problem, after all it's fairly consistent with other "onmessage" events around the platform (Web Workers, Window.{postMessage,onmessage}, WebSockets, MessageChannel and so on).
Fair enough. I was trying to see if we could get rid of MIDIEvent altogether and just use Event, but that seems unlikely.