Re: ISSUE-44 (EventsAndWindow): Should DOM3 Events cover the interaction of events and the Window object? [DOM3 Events]

On Aug 7, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:

>
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Olli Pettay wrote:
>>> Could we actually just say that if document implements  
>>> DocumentView interface and .defaultView isn't null and implements  
>>> EventTarget, the event propagates to .defaultView. So in that case  
>>> defaultView becomes the root of the event target chain (if the  
>>> target of the event is bound to document). No need to mention  
>>> Window, since AbstractView is already defined in DOM2 Views[1].  
>>> HTML5 defines that AbstractView must also implement Window and  
>>> EventTarget interfaces. [2]
>> Fine by me, so long as the result is compatible with most UAs.
>
> One very unfortunate thing is that if i recall correctly the Window  
> object never takes part in the EventTarget chain for the 'load'  
> event. But does for all other events. This was because a lot of  
> sites broke when we tried to bubble 'load' to the Window.

I think it is best to special-case the 'load' event. We have this same  
quirk in WebKit.

Regards,
Maciej