Re: WebApps-ISSUE-178 (empty string and null event types): Implementations and DOM Core allow empty string and null event types [DOM3 Events]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:57:22 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

>>> The alternative is to force the event to hold some hidden state which
>>> indicates if it has been initialized or not. This is worse both from
>>> an implementation complexity aspect, as well as removes the ability
>>> for pages to check if an event has been initialized (I don't have any
>>> use cases for the latter, but it's a nice free bonus)
>>
>> Some argued for that but DOM Core was then changed to have a flag -
>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#initialized-flag
>
> Why? What was the advantage with that approach? I'd rather not head
> down a path that'll make us add extra API just to check the
> initialized flag if someone comes up with a use case a couple of years
> down the road.
>
> / Jonas

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Simon Pieters
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