Passing arguments to callback function in addEventListener

01-11-2007

Paul wrote:
> Richard Cornford wrote:
>> Elegie wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> [4] Instead of passing the handler directly, pass some object
>>> implementing the EventListener interface.
>>
>> That is very risky in javascript. The W3C ECMAScript bindings for the
>> EventListener interface effectively say that any _function_ is an
>> EventListener. ...
<snip>

> The OP mentioned he was developing a greasemonkey script for firefox.

Being able to disregard the applicable standard because the context of
application allows more is not reason for doing so in itself.

Richard.

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