- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:05:44 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 2/24/11, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > For DOM Core Ms2ger and I (and some others on IRC) decided to introduce a > subtle distinction between fire and dispatch. Dispatching is actually > going through the list of event targets with an initialized event whereas > firing is initializing the event and then dispatching it. > > E.g. a specification can say "fire an event named x" and DOM Core defines > that to mean that you create an event of type Event, that all its flags > are unset (unless specified otherwise), apart from its trusted flag which > is true (when a specification says to dispatch an event it is trusted), > that its name is x, etc. and that after you have initialized it in that > way it is then dispatched. > OK. Why not expose a generic version of `fire` to the scripting environment? -- Garrett
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