addEventListener/removeEventListener EventListenerOptions API

Add an additional API to addEventListener/removeEventListener which takes EventListenerOptions dictionary. void [add|remove]EventListener(DOMString type, EventListener listener, EventListenerOptions options); Currently other platforms (Gecko) add additional booleans to the argument list to modify the behavior of the added event listeners. We'd like to turn this into a dictionary (EventListenerOptions) so that is a more flexible API for future work.

Documentation

• https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/82
• https://github.com/RByers/EventListenerOptions
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/removeEventListener

Status in Chromium

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 49
• Chrome for Android release 49

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: No signals

Owners

• dtapuska@chromium.org
• rbyers@chromium.org

Last updated on 2016-03-14