Re: why not MediaQueryList.onchange

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:39 PM, François REMY
<francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:
> ± > Hey,
> ± >
> ± > I wonder why MediaQueryList defines its own listener interface
> ± > (MediaQueryListListener) instead of just defining an change event on
> ± > the MediaQueryList itself?
> ± >
> ± > The reason I ask is because MediaQueryListListener is a pretty unique
> ± > snowflake in the web exposed APIs which makes it very costly to
> ± > implement and somewhat unintuitive to use.
> ±
> ± The CSSWG resolved today to do what this thread suggests:
> ±
> ± * make MediaQueryList an EventTarget
> ± * fire a non-bubbling "change" event at it whenever things change
> ± * alias the existing addListener(...) to addEventListener("change", ...); same
> ± with removeListener()
>
> Does it include the "mq.onchange" property?

Yeah, it will.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 19 May 2014 12:46:57 UTC