Re: remedy for click event

On Sep 19, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Krzysztof Maczyński wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Doug Schepers wrote:
>> I am not convinced that this is a compelling enough use case to  
>> account
>> for... the 'click' event is a pretty crazy and krufty legacy feature,
>> but it's just not going to go away.  I have no intentions to  
>> deprecate
>> it (in any sense of the word), and I suspect the implementers would  
>> find
>> it laughable if I did anyway.
> As I argued, it being dispatched both at non-activating click and  
> activating non-click makes it broken almost beyond repair.

I agree that this is odd. But it doesn't seem to create problems for  
content authors in practice. I think we should leave click alone. I  
expect a "click2" event would add more complexity and confusion than  
it would resolve.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Sunday, 20 September 2009 01:16:10 UTC