- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:27:15 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: olli@pettay.fi, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Olli Pettay wrote: >> Could we actually just say that if document implements DocumentView >> interface and .defaultView isn't null and implements EventTarget, the >> event propagates to .defaultView. So in that case defaultView becomes >> the root of the event target chain (if the target of the event is bound >> to document). No need to mention Window, since AbstractView is already >> defined in DOM2 Views[1]. HTML5 defines that AbstractView must also >> implement Window and EventTarget interfaces. [2] > > Fine by me, so long as the result is compatible with most UAs. One very unfortunate thing is that if i recall correctly the Window object never takes part in the EventTarget chain for the 'load' event. But does for all other events. This was because a lot of sites broke when we tried to bubble 'load' to the Window. / Jonas
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