Re: [whatwg/dom] Proposal: asynchronous event listeners (Issue #1308)

@flackr links to delayed activations is in my previous comment: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1308#issuecomment-2313072164

I agree some event doesn't want that activation but your *gesture* example is spot-on: the whole clicking is a delayed event, why can't that event await before landing the user into a different page or avoid submitting that form already?

So :+1: to me about defining non-async-friendly events (I think these are an easy/small list related to mouse or touch movements or scrolling and not much else) and those that could wait a *transient* time before firing out of the blue.

The fact *transient events* exist in the first place should be a strong indication the synchronous API defined "ages ago" when no `async` existed in the first place might need some modernization for current APIs which are 99% of the time asynchronous anyway.

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