Thanks for the clarifications, this helps a lot. -Nicholas ______________________________________________ Commander Lock: "Dammit Morpheus, not everyone believes what you believe!" Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require them to."
-----Original Message----- From: Anne van Kesteren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:54 AM To: [email protected]; Nicholas Zakas Subject: Re: [whatwg] Question regarding event: in server-sent events On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:38:46 +0200, Nicholas Zakas <[email protected]> wrote: > Just for my own understanding, what you're saying is: > > 1) Any event name in the stream must be a valid event name in that it > must not have spaces, special characters, etc. (The wording in the spec > made me think that it must be an event name that is listed in the DOM > Events spec, such as click.) Yes, although it is not clear whether per the current DOM Events specification an event name with a space would be invalid. > 2) When you define an custom event name, this still fires the message > event with event.type set to the custom event name. Well, it dispatches an event that uses the MessageEvent interface. But e.g. a function attached to onmessage will not be invoked, as the event is not named message, but something else. So you need obj.addEventListener(customEvent, ...). -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
