RE: [DOM-Level-3-Events] Synthetic mouse events triggering default action

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Leithead
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:53 AM
> To: Anne van Kesteren; Bogdan Brinza
> Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [DOM-Level-3-Events] Synthetic mouse events triggering default
> action
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: annevankesteren@gmail.com [mailto:annevankesteren@gmail.com]
> On Behalf Of Anne van Kesteren
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Bogdan Brinza <bbrinza@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#trusted-events

> >
> >That text is utterly broken as we've discussed several times now.
> 
> Yeah, I've got a bug to fix that. Will probably refactor to match basically what
> Sicking wrote in 12230.
> 
> >Events do not cause action. Actions cause events (that can then prevent
> further action). There is one issue here with some implementations around a
> limited set >of events, discussed to great length in this bug:
> >https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12230

> 
> It looks like that bug is trending in the right direction. We have additional data
> to drop into that bug now to help Rick and others identify additional
> behaviors and sites that depend on them.

Thanks for clarifications. Based on discussion in the bug (thanks Travis for adding further details!) I've filed crbug.com/423975 for this specific issue.

Received on Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:09:49 UTC