Re: [whatwg] Regarding spec clarification on dispatching click event on disabled form controls from Anne van Kesteren on 2015-05-08 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from May 2015)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 12:20:32 +0200
To: Ramya Vadlamudi <ramya.v@samsung.com>
Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78gs2pgz6-+mce4aY6zZP8=bCMaWAZAuggsSod07iRxQzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Ramya Vadlamudi <ramya.v@samsung.com> wrote:
> Is there any specific reason to prevent click events that are queued on the
> user interaction task source only?

Presumably that's the legacy behavior.

> What should be the behavior of other events like button.dispatchEvent(new
> Event('click'))?
>
> From the results we can see IE and Firefox are not dispatching any click
> event generated to disabled elements.
>
> Please let me know the correct behavior.

I would say that both IE and Firefox are wrong. dispatchEvent() should
always work. There's nothing in the dispatchEvent() specification that
says it shouldn't for this case.

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