Is “event handler event type” a necessary distinction from “event type”?

[j9t]

There are 39 cases of the specification referring to “event handler event types,” but it seems this is all referring to the same thing, an “event type.” This suggests “event handler event type” could often be shortened to “event type,” which would make parts of the spec easier and faster to read.

Is this missing something and there’s an important distinction to be made from another, non-event handler event type? Or is this something we could look at? (I’d volunteer to prepare a PR.)

[domenic]

Yes, event types are the values returned by https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-event-type ; event handler event types are the event types used for event handlers.

[j9t]

Thanks for clarifying.