Re: WebEvents-ISSUE-7: Targets for touch events: Elements or Nodes? [Touch Events spec]

>> This is an ancient bug in WebKit. Very early versions (Safari 1 or
>> thereabouts) had this problem with pretty much all events. It was
>> solved later, and frankly I thought it had disappeared entirely.
>> Apparently not so.
>>
>> Making a text node the target of an event never makes sense from a web
>> development perspective.
>
> Why? Mouse events have element as the target.

Sorry, made a mistake. I advise you to always make the correct *Element*
the target. Not Node, obviously.

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Received on Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:25:53 UTC