What are the event.type strings?

[martijnthe]

I looking at the test suite in the hope of finding out answers but, I don't see sensor.addEventListener(...) being used there...

There was some discussion here, but it's unclear to me from the spec doc what various the Event's type strings are supposed to be. In case one wants to use the EventTarget interface instead of the onreading, etc. properties this is quite important 😄 It would be nice if this could be documented more clearly and also be added to the test cases.

cc @jiangzidong

[alexshalamov]

@martijnthe yes, spec is missing section that describes event handlers. I will take a look at it.

[jiangzidong]

Does that means there is no sensor.onreading property in the future? only sensor.addEventListener(...)

[alexshalamov]

@jiangzidong Specification always had both, EventHandler properties as well as EventTarget interface with corresponding eventtypes.

Edit: There are no plans to remove EventHandler properties.

[rwaldron]

yes, spec is missing section that describes event handlers.

Right, basically this hasn't been done because there was still enough churn that it made some sense to let the naming of events settle before doing all the work to write up the spec prose.