Following up on last year's discussion on adding support for querying DOM elements about already registered event handlers:
Travis Leithead wrote on Apr 09, 2008; 08:07pm > In considering a design for the event iterator (allow devs > to enumerate what events have been _added_ via > addEventListener to a given object), I looked at two general > approaches: > > 1) Defining a new collection on every object that supports > the EventTarget interface > 2) Defining a 'getNextEvent' function for every object that > supports the EventTarget interface > 3) Defining a function that returns a static/dynamic list of > event handlers for a given object that supports the > EventTarget interface <rest of conversation snipped> Action page: http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/track/actions/267 Mail thread view on nabble: http://www.nabble.com/-DOML3Events--ACTION-267-Proposal-for-event-iterator-t d16593177.html#a16691378 Was any consensus ever reached and what's the status of this suggestion now? Personally I think this feature is a very natural part of the DOM API and believe there needs to be very good reasons not to include it. Best regards Mike Wilson
