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Summary: The HTML 5 specification declares that a "contextmenu" event should be fired as a "simple" event. However, several websites rely on the mouse coordinate positions returned by the contextmenu event object in IE8, and Firefox treats the event as a "MouseEvent" object. For interoperability with existing browsers and site-compatibility concerns, we recommend that the "contextmenu" event be a MouseEvent. Existing text: "When an element's context menu is requested (e.g. by the user right-clicking the element, or pressing a context menu key), the UA must fire a simple event named contextmenu that bubbles and is cancelable at the element for which the menu was requested." (4.11.4.3 Context menus) Proposed text: "When an element's context menu is requested (e.g. by the user right-clicking the element, or pressing a context menu key), the UA must fire a MouseEvent named contextmenu that bubbles and is cancelable at the element for which the menu was requested."
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5516. Check-in comment: Make contextmenu into a MouseEvent. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5515&to=5516
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