The "initialization" steps for Web browsers

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 7/22/14, 7:21 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> I didn't see where in the process  of invoking an event handler that you
> call the [[Call]] internal method of the callback function.

Yeah, this part needs clarification.  Something in here needs to 
explicitly invoke 
http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-invoking-callback-functions which 
will do the [[Call]] bits.

> You also need to handle any exceptions that come back from
> the [[Call]].

This is a bit of a mess in general.  :(  What _should_ happen, more or 
less, is that this code just propagates the exception and event dispatch 
then catches-and-reports it before moving on to the next event listener. 
  The DOM spec doesn't seem to do a very good job of describing what it 
does with exceptions...

> BTW, I'm also assuming that a batch of events would be
> handled as a single ES job

Hmm... event dispatch can happen synchronously from script like so:

   target.dispatchEvent(new Event("foo"));

which will trigger all event listeners for "foo" on the target before 
the dispatchEvent call returns.

So we're starting out in an ES job here; are you saying the 
dispatchEvent call creates a new one?

> Overall, my sense is that we are inching in a good direction but that
> there is a fair amount of work that is still need to enable the HTML and
> ES specs to smoothly plug together.

Agreed.

-Boris