Re: ISSUE-72: should XMLHttpRequest be an EventTarget?

On Apr 09, 2006, at 15:27, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> So what type should we put in the IDL that works for both  
> ECMAScript and Java? (or do you have a link to where someone  
> already explained it?)

It's all done at the binding level, so I'm not sure it's a solution  
that IDL-based implementations like Mozilla would like. Just look at  
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/ecma-script-binding.html,  
where it says: "Object EventListener: This is an ECMAScript function  
reference" (the second bound interface). And handleEvent is not exposed.

So supposedly, if we are to be consistent with DOM Events, all  
objects of type EventListener are expected to be bound to Function  
anyway (though I would prefer to expose handleEvent on it).

-- 
Robin Berjon
    Senior Research Scientist
    Expway, http://expway.com/

Received on Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:54:40 UTC