Re: Re: [Clipboard API] The before* events

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <
hallvord@opera.com> wrote:

> It's not only about the context menu (which could be "scoped" to whatever
> element was targeted by a right-click), it's also about the "Edit" menu or
> the "inline" commands in Chrome's normal application menu. Enabling the
> menu entries all the time breaks with existing UI conventions.
>

But that's the point: if you do this, then a page adding a capturing
listener on window or document will cause all of these things to happen up
for every element on the page, because a capturing listener might affect
anything.  It's the same problem "see if an event handler is
registered"-type solutions always cause.

-- 
Glenn Maynard