ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events]

ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events]

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/99

Raised by: Doug Schepers
On product: DOM3 Events

Alex Russell suggests that since addEventListener() and removeEventListener() are so commonly used, it would be good to add a lump of syntactic sugar by aliasing them with shorter names: listen() and unlisten().  He also suggests adding listenOnce() as a further shortcut method:

<http://www.w3.org/mid/6fc58d0d0904241431n290e8166m1e126cc02e735564@mail.gmail.com>

Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 06:14:11 UTC