I wonder if this is the moment where redemption can happen... Instead of trying to invent some kind of new approach, why not standardize on the massive, 16 lane, mega-highway cow-path just waiting to be paved:
on => addEventListener off => removeEventListener emit => dispatchEvent I'd suggest Node's EventEmitter (and EventEmitter2) as a reasonable starting point for an ideal, "subclassable" EventTarget-like system. Rick On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:32 PM, François REMY < [email protected]> wrote: > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:00:59 +0100 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Better event listeners > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, François REMY > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > However, I've a few issues with your latest proposal: > > > > There's no proposal yet, we're exploring options. > > > > Not quite convinced about yours though as I'm pretty sure we want to > > continue minting lowercase event names and overall it seems way > > complex. > > No problem with that, we're here to discuss. As you note, this is still > early exploration ;-) My concerns continue to hold, however. > > If we can a solution that works well with autocompletio, where you can > test the existence of an event before registering to it (in a way that > enables polyfills) and that doesn't remove abilities from the current > syntax, I'll be all right. If we don't match those criteria, however, I'm > not sure this approach is worth pursuing. > > To respond to Benoit's answer, I do think 'onclick' was a good approach > that just missed the '+=' and '-=' operators of C#. Maybe adding support > for them would be an alternative approach? Don't know how practical it's > from an ECMAScript point of view, however. Proxying 'null' to support just > '+' and '-' operators on it would be awsomely insane ^_^ > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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