- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:13:16 +1200
- To: Olli@pettay.fi
- Cc: Rob Brackett <rbrackett@apple.com>, www-dom@w3.org, Jacob Rossi <jrossi@microsoft.com>
Olli Pettay:
> D3E could be clarified, but seems like this is anyway defined in WebIDL.
I agree, it is defined in Web IDL. I remember changing the order in
which the handler is checked for (between the property and the function
itself) some time ago, due to feedback.
Here is a test:
http://people.mozilla.org/~cmccormack/tests/eventlistener-property.html
The first sub-test is doing
addEventListener(…, { handleEvent: function() { … } }, …);
and the second sub-test is doing
function b() { … }
b.handleEvent = function() { … };
addEventListener(…, b, …);
The results are that every browser invokes the handler in the first
sub-test, and for the second sub-test, Firefox/Chrome/Opera/IE use the
function object itself, while Safari uses the property.
I agree that preferring the property makes some sense to me (especially
if you consider JS implementing an interface with more than one
operation on it), but the change was made to match the implementations.
--
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
Received on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 22:13:58 UTC