RE: Window Modes todo

2009-08-26 Thread Marcin Hanclik
Hi Robin, All, I have addressed the below issues in the latest version of the draft. I did cargo-culting wrt the events to adhere to DOM3Events. I assume the decisions about dropping initializations, modifications etc. should be taken jointly with the parties interested in that specification (sp

Re: Window Modes todo

2009-07-27 Thread Sebastian Markbåge
For the JS framework MooTools, I'm currently implementing a model where you can pass an object to an event constructor: new Event({ foo: 'bar', foo2: 'bar' }); Any uninitialized properties would fall back to defaults. This would be comparable to named parameters found in many languages. You could a

Re: Window Modes todo

2009-07-27 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Robin Berjon wrote: Do other implementers care to chime in with what they do, and if they'd find this change acceptable? As I recall Gecko's behavior, it works more or less like this: 1) Properties listed as readonly in the DOM 2 Events IDL are in fact readonly. 2) init*Event may be call

Re: Window Modes todo

2009-07-27 Thread Robin Berjon
On Jul 27, 2009, at 05:37 , Travis Leithead wrote: Adding WWW-DOM to widen the audience a bit. Having the attributes not be read only and allowing their modification before the Event is dispatched seems better to me. But changing this for DOM Events in general seems like a larger issue fo

RE: Window Modes todo

2009-07-26 Thread Travis Leithead
ack Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:03 PM To: Robin Berjon Cc: public-webapps@w3.org Subject: Re: Window Modes todo Robin Berjon: > To be honest, I'm not entirely certain of the value in enabling user > script creation of these events — but I guess that's another matter. Sure.

Re: Window Modes todo

2009-07-16 Thread Cameron McCormack
Robin Berjon: > To be honest, I'm not entirely certain of the value in enabling user > script creation of these events — but I guess that's another matter. Sure. > What concerns me is that all the initFooEvent/NS that we have all over > are all copied and pasted from one another, and it's not

Re: Window Modes todo

2009-07-16 Thread Robin Berjon
On Jul 16, 2009, at 04:46 , Cameron McCormack wrote: Robin Berjon: - I forget the original reasoning: is it useful that the event initialisers have canBubbleArg and cancelableArg since presumably no matter what parameter is passed they won't bubble and won't be cancellable? Shouldn’t canBubbl

Re: Window Modes todo

2009-07-15 Thread Cameron McCormack
Robin Berjon: > - I forget the original reasoning: is it useful that the event > initialisers have canBubbleArg and cancelableArg since presumably no > matter what parameter is passed they won't bubble and won't be > cancellable? Shouldn’t canBubbleArg and cancelableArg be honoured when us