- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:30:31 +0200
- To: public-webapps@w3.org, ian@hixie.ch
On 7/11/11 8:23 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: >>>> >>>> On the other hand, we should [not] do things now that are likely to >>>> create a more complicated or inconsistent platform in the future. >>> >>> I agree, indeed that's my main reason for not wanting to make objects >>> inherit from EventTarget. :-) >> >> I think adding EventTarget to the chain is a simplification as it makes >> that interface more consistent with the majority of other ones. > > I mean in general, on any interface. > > IMHO nothing should inherit from EventTarget. That some interfaces do in > the specs today is a relatively new development and IMHO one that will > complicate the platform in the future. Interesting. How so? Do you have an example where inheriting from EventTarget has become an issue or is going to be an issue? I personally don't have a position on this, I'm just really interested because I had this come up in other (proprietary) contexts. Kind regards, Marcos
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