Re: [whatwg] DOM Events Proposal: EventListenerOptions 'mayCancel' for improved scroll performance

On 07/09/2015 06:22 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org> wrote:
>> I think there's a big opportunity to substantially improve scroll
>> performance on the web in the relatively short term by doing something
>> incremental.  I.e. I'm pretty sure I can get major scroll-blocking libraries
>> like Google Analytics to opt into the pattern proposed here in a relatively
>> short timeframe.  I'm much less sure I could get them to switch to a
>> completely new event API in any sort of reasonable timeframe.
>
> Either way they need to branch their code, no?
>
>
>> What do you think about an incremental path?  I don't see any fundamental
>> reason that things need to change drastically.
>
> Overloading a boolean argument with a dictionary seems bad. And if we
> are to have a new API anyway, we might as well pick the better names.
>

I'm a bit worried that figuring out what the "new better API" might take quite a bit more time than
adding something to the existing one.


There is https://github.com/RByers/EventListenerOptions/issues/12 open
for the proposed API change, if we want to be more careful with backwards compatibility.




>
>> If we can get consensus on the basic approach, then I'd be happy to rework
>> my proposal in the form of a pull-request and move all issue tracking to
>> whatwg/dom.  There's probably no point in doing that until we have an
>> agreement on the basic API shape, right?
>
> Fair.
>
>

Received on Thursday, 9 July 2015 15:27:09 UTC