From: whatwg [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Rick Byers
> That seems like a nice incremental compromise. Using a new name for > addEventListener will help address some of the feature detection / > compatiblity concerns too. Filed > https://github.com/RByers/EventListenerOptions/issues/18. I tend to disagree. I think we shouldn't "use up" the nice names like off and on without significant thought as to what a well-designed better-EventTarget would look like. And I think that such thought would take time and motivation which we should not block this proposal on. The idea of extending addEventListener seems like the most reasonable thing to me. If someone wants to take on the larger project of EventTarget overhaul, that should be done in a more deliberate fashion.
