Re: event.returnValue

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