Re: ElementTraversal spec draft from Boris Zbarsky on 2007-04-03 (public-webapi@w3.org from April 2007)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:38:31 -0500
To: public-webapi@w3.org
Message-ID: <46128307.2020205@mit.edu>

Stewart Brodie wrote:
> Aren't those DOM events handy?  Just what you need to keep these data
> structures up to date.   It sounds like you do exactly the same as me :)

Yeah, with a capturing DOM event listener on the root you could basically get 
the notifications you need.  Gecko doesn't actually use DOM events internally 
because they introduce a lot of overhead, but it has a similar notification 
system in place.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:38:48 UTC