Re: Time in DOM 2 Events

Patrick Schmitz wrote:

> I cannot believe that I missed this in earlier reviews, but the Event
> interface in  DOM 2 Events is missing a timestamp for the event.  Without
> this, many common UI functions (like filtering small motions between click
> down and click up) will be hard or impossible to do well. In addition, for
> SMIL Boston to work with DOM Events, we would have to define a parallel set
> of Event interfaces that add the time.  This would be a royal pain.

An excellent point.

I propose Java-compatible timestamps: the number of milliseconds since
1970-01-01T00:00:00 UTC, expressed as a 64-bit integer.

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Received on Monday, 31 January 2000 09:41:19 UTC