On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > I can't remember getting a single bug filed on Geckos current > behavior. There probably have been some which I've missed, but it's > not a big enough problem that it's ever been discussed at mozilla as > far as I can remember. > Actually there was a compatibility problem with one site, and that's what triggered us to make the third parameter of addEventListener optional: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613634 Yes. In fact, unless someone can show that the web depends on the > currently specced behavior, I don't see a reason to change Gecko. > I don't know of any other examples other than that one site, so I wouldn't say we have evidence that "the Web" depends on the currently specced behavior. I think we can hold the line unless more compatibility issues appear. I think Ojan's request to make more parameters explicitly optional here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21257#c16 is a great idea and we should do that no matter what. Rob -- "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11]
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