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Bug 14092 - I don't think the phrase "bubbling event listeners" has any real meaning. Would't non-capturing event listener be better here? Handlers can be invoked during the bubbling or at_target phases, right?
Summary: I don't think the phrase "bubbling event listeners" has any real meaning. Wo...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-08 20:49 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-20 10:24 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-09-08 20:49:28 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webappapis.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#events
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#events

Comment:
I don't think the phrase "bubbling event listeners" has any real meaning. 
Would't non-capturing event listener be better here?  Handlers can be invoked
during the bubbling or at_target phases, right?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 23:06:45 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: We can try that.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-10-19 23:09:36 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6707.
Check-in comment: Try slightly more pedantically correct wording. Unfortunately DOM Core doesn't have good terminology for this either way.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6706&to=6707
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2011-10-20 10:24:32 UTC 
Anne, do we need better terminology here?