Re: ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Web Applications Working Group Issue
Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
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> ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
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> http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/118
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> Raised by: Doug Schepers
> On product: DOM3 Events
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> Simon Pieters wrote in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010AprJun/0041.html> :
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> Is it defined what should happen in the following case?
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> <div onclick="document.links[0].dispatchEvent(event)">click me</div>
> <a href="http://example.org/">test</a>
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> It seems Firefox and Opera throw an exception, while WebKit allows the event to be dispatched.
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> I think it seems like a neat thing to be able to do, for making table rows or <canvas> clickable. (However the event shouldn't be a 'trusted' event in that case, of course.) To make it work today you'd have to create a new event and copy over all properties, which is annoying.
> ]]

Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be
followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no
default action. There is, in any case, a simpler solution to the
above:

 <div onclick="document.links[0].click()">click me</div>
 <a href="http://example.org/">test</a>

-- 
Ian Hickson

Received on Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:08:14 UTC