Re: Wheel events (ISSUE-9)

* Markus Stange wrote:
>The problem is that calling .preventDefault() on line scroll events 
>doesn't have any effect on the pixel scroll events. So we need to 
>dispatch pixel scroll events, too, in order to give web applications a 
>reliable way to prevent scrolling.

That isn't so, if you don't want a user agent to perform certain actions
in response to certain user input, telling the user agent just that is a
far better way to achieve just that, already because a script would not
know what action it is preventing by calling preventDefault().
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Received on Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:08:35 UTC