The problem appears to be, some tend to get confused, who is the caller and who is the callee. For this, please just consider that the DOM-interface is not part of the language, but just -- as the name suggests -- an interface to a separate environment. From the point of view of the DOM, the element is the callee, which applies itself to a callback function (the event-handler). Makes quite some sense.

In case you've issues with this, you may just use `Object.handleEvent()`, and the this-object will be your object (or function). Why is everyone complaining about this behavior, but no one is using the built-in feature that would be the perfect solution to the problem?