- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:11:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > The specification states that the storage event can be cancelled. > However, is there any effect tied to cancelling the event? The > specification does not say. Fixed. On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > I don't see any value in claiming that something is cancellable, which > canceling has no effect. I'd even say that goes against the spirit of > the DOM-Events spec. Almost all events Gecko fires appear to be cancelable, even when they have no effect. :-) On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Hixie said most events are cancelable. I didn't care enough to check > since I just wanted to know what the effect of cancelling would be. > Looking through HTML5 for "cancelable" there are indeed quite a few > events that do not bubble, but are cancelable. I haven't seen many so > far for which that makes sense. I have not checked whether there might > be legacy reasons for some of them. I've gone through the spec cleaning it up. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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