Re: in defence of listener discovery from Jim Ley on 2006-03-23 (public-webapi@w3.org from March 2006)

From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:13:32 -0000
To: "WebAPI WG" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Cc: <wai-liaison@w3.org>
Message-ID: <029a01c64e94$c207df60$6601a8c0@Snufkin>

"Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
> Assistive technologies need to be able to discover these action 
> opportunities
> in order to set up alternate actuation modalities for their users.

I don't understand why hasEventListener is required for this - an assistive 
technology can just override the addEventListener method to catch all 
registrations of events and store them - this is a lot more efficient on the 
user agent than querying every element in the document for the few that have 
events registered on them.

I have done similar things in the past with similar methods for AT's and it 
worked very well for my purposes.

Cheers,

Jim.

Received on Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:14:57 UTC