- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:38:25 +0100
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: brandon.wallace@yahoo.com, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>, Jake Verbaten <raynos2@gmail.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > (Just sanity checking: you're getting my mail, right? I mentioned this > early in the thread.) Yeah. I just mentioned it because apparently Jonas had not seen that. > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: >> What future headaches? As I said before, thus far we never found a >> need to expand this kind of API. See setInterval(), >> addEventListener(), ... > > setInterval is orders of magnitude simpler API than DOM events, so it isn't > a useful comparison. I don't understand the reference to addEventListener > (events are exactly what we're talking about expanding on right now). It is a useful comparison as it's the same kind of problem: adding and removing a callback. It seems you trimmed down too much here, it gave the reasons for why an object is problematic. > I've already given an example of something else this API might do in the > future, based on an actual, live API. > http://prototypejs.org/doc/latest/dom/Event/Handler/prototype/start/index.html Is it in use? -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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