- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:24:17 +0100
- To: "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Cc: "WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:05:44 +0100, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
wrote:
> OK. Why not expose a generic version of `fire` to the scripting
> environment?
I do not know of any research (or have done any myself) as to how often
such a feature might be useful for authors. While firing an event is
currently a series of steps (using proposed optional arguments):
var e = document.createEvent("Event")
e.initEvent("test")
dispatchEvent(e)
... it is not hugely complicated. (We could even make the argument to
createEvent optional too and default it to "Event".) I could imagine
having something like EventTarget.fireEvent(name) but if you want to get a
little beyond the basics you will remain stuck with creating the event
yourself.
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Friday, 25 February 2011 10:24:52 UTC