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Bug 16091 - The focus event is synchronous in browsers other than IE. Test-case: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1351 Apparently blur and various other events too. The spec seems to require that they're async.
Summary: The focus event is synchronous in browsers other than IE. Test-case: http://...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-02-23 18:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-23 18:20:52 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#focus-management
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#focus-management

Comment:
The focus event is synchronous in browsers other than IE.  Test-case:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1351  Apparently
blur and various other events too.  The spec seems to require that they're
async.

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Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor 2012-02-23 19:35:33 UTC 
I was misunderstanding the spec.  Ms2ger clarified.