Re: ISSUE-127 (cancelBubble / srcElement): Consider adding cancelBubble and srcElement [DOM3 Events] from Olli Pettay on 2010-09-15 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2010)

From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:24:02 +0300
To: www-dom@w3.org
Message-ID: <4C911D52.3000707@helsinki.fi>

On 09/15/2010 08:56 PM, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
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> ISSUE-127 (cancelBubble / srcElement): Consider adding cancelBubble and srcElement [DOM3 Events]
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> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/127
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> Raised by: Doug Schepers
> On product: DOM3 Events
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> Simon Pieters<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010JulSep/0125.html>:
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> Looking at [6], I notice that Opera and WebKit have cancelBubble and
> srcElement. WebKit and Gecko have more constants on Event.
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> [6] http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/611
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> ]]
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cancelBubble and srcElement are IEisms which we're not defining (unless
the old IE event model has some useful features)

Are there any use cases for srcElement or cancelBubble which can't be 
achieved in other ways?

-Olli

Received on Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:24:37 UTC