- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:14:36 +0000
- To: olli@pettay.fi
- Cc: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>, www-dom@w3.org
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Olli Pettay wrote: > On 11/28/2012 12:30 PM, David Håsäther wrote: > > The only reason for CustomEvent is to be able to pass a `detail` > > object. It seems unnecessary to have a separate constructor just to be > > able to pass an extra object, and I would suggest that Event could > > take `detail` too (thereby deprecating CustomEvent). > > > > I asked Anne on IRC if it's too late to add `detail` to Event and he > > said "no at all". > > > > -- > > David Håsäther > > > > > What is the use case for having .detail in Event? > The use case is being able to pass custom data as part of a custom event - this is really useful for all sorts of things as the data pertains to whatever emitted the event (e.g., a parser could tell your how many things it parsed, if anything was discarded, how long it took, etc.). -- Marcos Caceres
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