- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:27:10 +0200
- To: Karl Groves <kgroves@paciellogroup.com>
- Cc: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Karl Groves <kgroves@paciellogroup.com> wrote: > I'm not sure the reply "this been discussed and rejected several times > before ... I would advise against reopening the discussion." is terribly > helpful. To Shane's original question: which WG would be best to address > this with or to search down the history of the relevant discussions? Is > there a way to get access to those previous discussions or at least a > summary as to why? This list would be the best place for such research. > And that search turns up almost a quarter-of-a-million results. The top > results are quite relevant to this discussion and also demonstrate that many > people are looking for such a thing. The fact is, the browsers themselves > already have this, but it isn't exposed in a way that devs can get to. The reasoning is that listeners are observers and adding one should not have side effects. Exposing listeners leads to abuse. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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