Re: stopImmediatePropagation() use case

• From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
• Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:13:17 -0800
• To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
• Message-Id: <867A344A-DF9F-4CD9-9C60-3DE9537585FA@apple.com>

On Feb 21, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> In XBL2, if an event handler for a binding wants to prevent a base  
> binding
> from seeing an event, it has to use stopImmediatePropagation(),  
> because
> the event handlers are all registered on the same element.

Thanks. I'd (privately) proposed dropping it from the in-progress DOM  
Level 3 Events for lack of a use case, but this seems like a solid  
justification.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Wednesday, 22 February 2006 02:13:17 UTC