[flebron]

That's not a JS inconsistency, that's just the browser calling yourhandler.call(yourobject, eventobject).

The underlying statement is that "event handler" is not a concept in JS, it's just a way of calling functions that some implementations use for some things (browsers for actions, node for I/O, etc...).

In fact, this didn't use to be true of old IE versions if I remember correctly, so it's not a matter of the language, but of what the browser does with your function during event firings.

[ender7]

You can get the current emitting object via e.currentTarget. Modifying 'this', while cute, just makes yet another thing that must be explained to people when you start talking about 'this'.