Re: Bubbling/Capturing for XHR + other non-DOM objects

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:53:51 +0200, Travis Leithead <travil@microsoft.com>  
wrote:
> This topic came up internally on the IE team, and we thought it would be  
> noteworthy to put this question before the working groups in hopes of  
> getting a spec clarification made.
>
> The question is: for XHR and other non-DOM related objects that support  
> the EventTarget interface, meaning objects that will be surfaced off of  
> "window" but aren't really a part of the markup tree, how should event  
> propagation be handled?

Events only propagate within a DOM tree. In addition there are some  
special cases for the global object noted in the HTML5 specification.  
Other than that there is no propagation.


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Received on Friday, 25 June 2010 09:10:06 UTC