- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:52:57 -0400
- To: Curt Arnold <carnold@houston.rr.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, "Michael B. Allen" <mballen@erols.com>, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Curt Arnold wrote: > In the following passage, my original statement is preceded by >> > "Arnaud Le Hors" <lehors@us.ibm.com> wrote (>) > > > > The third test checks removing an event listener in the middle of an > > > event dispatch sequence. The spec says that a listener should recieve > > > no events after removal. > > > > You're right there, that's what the spec currently says. But the spec is > > wrong, though. It is meant to say the opposite. I just double-checked > > with Joe Kesselman who was very much involved in the development of that > > spec and who implemented it in Xerces and he confirmed my fears. > > I will bring it up to the DOM Working Group, I would expect an erratum > > to be published. The DOM Level 2 specification reflects our intent. An event listener will never be invoked after it is removed. > Of course, deliberations of the DOM WG aren't available to the public. I did the search and found the response ... in the DOM public mailing list. We changed the specification following a comment from Ralph Levien during the CR phase: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2000JanMar/0289.html Philippe
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