- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:53:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Andrew Oakley wrote: > > Section 7.1.6.1 (Event handlers) says "the event must be canceled". > This seems a little unclear to me, I assume this means preventDefault() > rather than stopImmediatePropagation() or stopPropagation(). This intentionally uses the same terminology as preventDefault()'s definition: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html#events-event-type-preventDefault > Is it possible for HTML5 to either reference these parts of DOM Events > or more of the language that D3E uses (e.g. say that the default actions > should not occur, but propagation continues)? The verb "to cancel" seems to be the operative terminology used by the DOM3 Events specification for this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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