- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:48:13 -0700
- To: Sergey Ilinsky <sergey@ilinsky.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Sergey Ilinsky <sergey@ilinsky.com> wrote: > There are modern browsers that made 3rd argument in the > addEventListener/removeEventListener be optional. Is this a legal step? > If I understand correctly, specification requires 3rd argument to be passed, > thus the new behaviour not backed by the change > in specification only destabilizes web as a platform. > Personally, I like the behaviour, but cannot use it as long as not every > browser does that. Currently it does not appear to be legal based on my reading of the latest editor drafts. However I would love to change that. It wouldn't be a big change in the spec, just stick [optional] in front of the useCapture argument, and it should be no problem as far as backwards compatibility goes. And at least in gecko it would be trivial to implement. The only problem I can think of is that it means that people might write pages that only works in newer browsers, however that is true for any new feature added. / Jonas
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