On 6/21/05, Matthew Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mozilla uses addEventListener[1], which is in DOM 2 and DOM 3. (DOM > 3 even adds addEventListenerNS for different namespaces.) By contrast, > IE uses attachEvent, which is proprietary and doesn't allow you to > specify the the initial capture. As a result, I would NOT support using > attachEvent in any WHATWG standard, especially since it does not appear > functionally different from addEventListener. (Is there even an > IE-proprietary event listener method that supports namespaces?)
`attachEvent` does not maintain scope for the event listeners you attach, the W3C DOM takes care of this. That's more of an issue than capture phases, IMO.
