ISSUE-99: Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al?

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Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al?

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POSTPONED

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HISTORICAL: DOM4 Events [features subsumed by UI Events which uses Bugzilla]

Raised by:

Doug Schepers

Opened on:

2009-08-27

Description:

Alex Russell suggests that since addEventListener() and removeEventListener() are so commonly used, it would be good to add a lump of syntactic sugar by aliasing them with shorter names: listen() and unlisten(). He also suggests adding listenOnce() as a further shortcut method:

<http://www.w3.org/mid/6fc58d0d0904241431n290e8166m1e126cc02e735564@mail.gmail.com>

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1. Re: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from castonet@yahoo.co.uk on 2009-08-28)
2. Re: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from annevk@opera.com on 2009-08-28)
3. Re: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from robin@berjon.com on 2009-08-28)
4. Re: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from robin@berjon.com on 2009-08-28)
5. Re: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from oliver@apple.com on 2009-08-27)
6. Re: ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from castonet@yahoo.co.uk on 2009-08-27)
7. ISSUE-99 (listen): Add shorter method names for addEventListener, et al? [DOM3 Events] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2009-08-27)

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