Re: ACTION-70: Define the scope chain of onFoo events reference issue-1

"Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
> In DOM Level 2 Events, the order in which event listeners trigger was 
> undefined. DOM Level 3 Events will specify an ordering, which is the 
> order in which they are added.

I'm not sure I see the motivation for this, it's not backwards compatible, I 
cannot see it has any usecases - why not leave it an undefined ordering?

In fact I see many more use cases for being able to explicit set a later 
defined event should be fired first, rather than forcing it to last - e.g. 
so you can prevent all listeners you've not added from responding.

>  so the Firefox order would compl with the new spec.

so should foo.onclick fire before or after foo.setAttribute('onclick',... ) 
?   :-)

Jim. 

Received on Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:20:31 UTC