ISSUE-123 - Public View

Should DOM Level 3 Events support namespaced events?

State:
OPEN
Product:
DOM 3 Events
Raised by:
Anne van Kesteren
Opened on:
2008-04-23
Description:
There are several reasons for dropping namespaced events as we discussed during 
today's telcon:

* Browser vendors have not implemented them
* There has been very little to no demand from Web developers for these 
features.
* Implementing this feature increases QA cost
* Implementing this feature increases the complexity of the Web platform

The main argument in favor seems to be libraries being able to distinguish 
event types from each other. Given that they currently use a simple string for 
this purpose (dojo.xxx, etc.) and that seems to work fine having namespaces 
does not seem necessary here. There's also not infinite libraries and you won't 
use infinite libraries on a Web page so the advantage seems really slim.

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Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-123: Should DOM Level 3 Events support namespaced events? (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-04-23)
  2. Re: ISSUE-123: Should DOM Level 3 Events support namespaced events? (from castonet@yahoo.co.uk on 2008-04-23)
  3. Re: ISSUE-123: Should DOM Level 3 Events support namespaced events? (from stewart.brodie@antplc.com on 2008-04-24)

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