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Constructible & Subclassable EventTarget

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 64)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Make EventTarget constructor callable, allowing them to be constructed on their own or be subclassed.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-eventtarget-eventtarget
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=740576

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