[whatwg] Exposing EventTarget to JavaScript

Aaron Boodman aa at google.com
Fri Apr 24 11:29:16 PDT 2009


I like the basic idea, but I think drawing too much inspiration from
DOM events is a bad idea. What does it mean to "capture" a pure JS
event? Further, the DOM event model has problems. It would be nice if
events were first-class, not strings. It would be more idiomatic JS, I
would argue, to do someObject.onClick.add(<handler>).

- a



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