Re: [EventSource] Question on event type

OK, maybe I'm getting closer to understanding this. From your example, when
the "event" field is set, it's not a "message" event that is dispatched but
an event of type "event name", so in order to see those events, I need to
use the addEventListener interface for the eventsource object (they will not
be delivered via the onmessage handler).

I modified my test to use that explanation and it does work. It would be
really great for the eventsource spec to have an example that explains this.

Thanks a lot for your explanation and example. Sorry for the newbie-ish
questions.
Bryan

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Bryan Sullivan <blsaws@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That would seem to be the obvious way to access it, but does not seem to
>> be working for current implementations of eventsource. That's why I was
>> unsure of how to access it. I guess there are some other issues at hand
>> here. I need to figure out what they are first, and will start another
>> thread for that.
>>
>
> It works for me in Chrome 13.  https://zewt.org/~glenn/event-source2.html
>
>
>
>> It would very helpful if the spec was clearer on how to access the event
>> type. I don't see this anywhere in the referenced DOM Events spec or HTML5
>> (or the "living standard" version).
>>
>
> See
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#dom-event-typeand
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html#event-types
> .
>
> --
> Glenn Maynard
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