Re: Report on event listener investigation from James Craig on 2014-08-27 (public-pfwg@w3.org from August 2014)

From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:05:28 -0700
To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
Cc: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-id: <8C0ACD61-65E9-4AB1-A27A-05C9BD1F7C6C@apple.com>

On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:44 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:

> Alternately, we could run the proposal through the HTML working group's DOM team.  There is clearly some opposition to this in the community, and we might run into that opposition harder there than if we just did it ourselves.  

I do not recommend PFWG circumventing the DOM groups on any issue that is not accessibility-specific. Instead, it’d be better to look into the reasons a listeners API was dismissed previously, and critically question whether another attempt is worthwhile.

James

Received on Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:06:00 UTC