Re: Adding an interface to provide a list of listeners

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Karl Groves <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure the reply "this been discussed and rejected several times
> before ... I would advise against reopening the discussion."  is terribly
> helpful. To Shane's original question: which WG would be best to address
> this with or to search down the history of the relevant discussions? Is
> there a way to get access to those previous discussions or at least a
> summary as to why?

This list would be the best place for such research.


> And that search turns up almost a quarter-of-a-million results. The top
> results are quite relevant to this discussion and also demonstrate that many
> people are looking for such a thing.  The fact is, the browsers themselves
> already have this, but it isn't exposed in a way that devs can get to.

The reasoning is that listeners are observers and adding one should
not have side effects. Exposing listeners leads to abuse.


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