[whatwg] Exposing EventTarget to JavaScript

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Sat Apr 25 01:57:33 PDT 2009


On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:29:09 +0200, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
> I think this is sufficient. Although it is a bit unfortunate that  
> dispatch order is undefined. It would be great if we could just agree  
> that dispatch order is the order the handlers were registered in. I  
> don't know the
> technical details here though. Is there a reason that they can't  
> dispatch in a guaranteed order?

Note that per DOM Level 3 Events (still a draft) the dispatch order is  
defined (register order). I believe that is also required for Web compat  
at this point, though I'm not a 100% sure.


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