RE: [DOML3Events] ACTION-267 Proposal for event iterator

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

Received on Saturday, 25 April 2009 09:38:31 UTC