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Re: Acid3: Test 74 incorrect?

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:57:56 +0000 (UTC)
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0802121754310.20115@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> What exactly requires click() and onclick() to be processed in 
> synchronous fashion so that up is indeed 10 right after the invocation 
> of click()? Or am I misunderstanding something?

click(): Simulate a mouse-click [1]
onclick: The onclick event occurs when the pointing device button is
         clicked over an element. [2]

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-2651361
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html#h-18.2.3

It doesn't say "Simulate a mouse-click later" or anything like that.

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