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The spec says: "This triggers a sequence of events dependent on the activation mechanism, and normally culminating in a click event followed by a DOMActivate event, as described below." Firing DOMActivate should be a MAY requirement because it is deprecated in DOM L3 Events. See http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-type-DOMActivate, which says: "The DOMActivate event type is defined in this specification for reference and completeness, but this specification deprecates the use of this event type in favor of the related event type click. Other specifications may define and maintain their own DOMActivate event type for backwards compatibility." See also, for example, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010JanMar/0004.html
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Opera has already dropped support for it. It seems Mozilla and WebKit still support it, but maybe they're willing to drop it too. I don't know what IE9 beta does, maybe Adrian can comment on that.
sicking, mjs: Will Gecko and WebKit drop support for DOMActivate?
IE doesn't support DOMActivate and we have no plans to add it.
I'd tentatively say that we're willing to try. It's too late to experiment with Firefox 4, but once that branches (in a matter of few weeks, maybe even days), I'd like to give it a shot.
Yeah, I think we could remove DOMActivate pretty soon from Gecko (trunk).
Awesome.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5628. Check-in comment: Drop DOMActivate http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5627&to=5628
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Thanks.