Re: [DOMCore] fire and dispatch

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> The big worry here is that you have to be _very_ careful to define behavior
> properly.  It's not an issue for extension APIs, where you can assume that
> the caller will do sane (and probably non-malicious) things.  But for a web
> API like this you would need to define exactly when and how many times the
> UA is supposed to get the "clientX" property of the second argument, for
> example.  That's a minimal requirement; there are probably other ratholes
> here that would need worrying about.  :(
>
> Alternately, we could require that all the properties be plain data
> properties or something, to avoid some of those pitfalls.

I think the latter sounds like the right way to go.  I can't imagine
any use-case where you'd need to set anything other than regular old
properties on the object (and I say that as someone who uses this
pattern a lot in my own code).

Received on Wednesday, 2 March 2011 00:21:55 UTC