Erik Arvidsson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:46, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
It's not really clear to me what the benefits of using the (rather
suboptimal, from the JS point of view) DOM EventTarget API for generic JS
callback dispatch are.
One of the benefits is a consistent API.
OK, true. But if the API is a bad fit, this might not be enough to want
to use it.
I do agree that the EventTarget API is suboptimal and so are most of
the DOM APIs but it is what we got and we need tie the lose ends and
make ends meet.
Why is the right approach to this to add addEventListener and its
baggage to everything instead of adding a sane API to everything?
-Boris
