- From: Mark Wubben <markwubben@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:35:52 +0200
On 6/21/05, Matthew Raymond <mattraymond at earthlink.net> wrote: > Mozilla uses addEventListener[1], which is in DOM 2 and DOM 3. (DOM > 3 even adds addEventListenerNS for different namespaces.) By contrast, > IE uses attachEvent, which is proprietary and doesn't allow you to > specify the the initial capture. As a result, I would NOT support using > attachEvent in any WHATWG standard, especially since it does not appear > functionally different from addEventListener. (Is there even an > IE-proprietary event listener method that supports namespaces?) `attachEvent` does not maintain scope for the event listeners you attach, the W3C DOM takes care of this. That's more of an issue than capture phases, IMO.
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