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[Robin]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Look you're really starting to piss me off

Oh but I do love it so :P

Originally Posted by Inverness

You don't seem to realize that we've been using catchevent() for years and nobody wants to have to replace all instances of it with some new function just to adhere to some standard that they probably don't care about.

I never said anything about replacing catchevent, that would be bad for backwards compatibility.

catchevent seems to only work for GUI / HTTPRequest objects and that seems like a very small scope.

It should be modified to work with any event, custom events included.

The beauty of addEventListener is that it's an already defined function in C-like interperated scripts and you wouldn't lose backwards compatibility by adding a new function.