- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:54:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 17 May 2010, David Flanagan wrote: > > Section 6.5.9 "History Traversal" defines popstate and hashchange events > that are fired on the Window object. It specifies that these events > *must* bubble. Where should they bubble to? What does it mean to bubble > up from a Window? These events aren't going across frames, are they? > > Is the specification that they must bubble a formality because existing > implementations set the bubbles property of the Event object to true? Or > does it actually have some impact on event propagation? On Mon, 17 May 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > My understanding is that the only noticable effect of defining that > these effects bubble is that their bubbles property is set to true. Same > thing happens to bubbling events fired at an XMLHttpRequest object. Indeed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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