- From: Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:20:58 +0300
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>, www-dom@w3.org
On 09/15/2010 08:57 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen > <hallvord@opera.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> IE lets you prevent the default action of an event by setting >> event.returnValue to false. Since both Opera and WebKit support this >> property it might be a good idea to standardise it? > > Can you point to any pages that break without this feature? I looked > through bugzilla and found a few bugs that mention event.returnValue, > but most of them seemed to also use a lot of other functionality that > was specific to IEs event model. For example: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139421 > > The only bug I could find that was filed specifically for event.returnValue is > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271528 > > However bz indicates there that returnValue doesn't make much sense > outside of IEs event model. There were also *no* counter comments > asking for reconsidering the bug resolution. > > / Jonas > > Yeah, I don't see reason to standardize returnValue. We're not trying to specify all the old event handling related things. -Olli
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