- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:15:22 -0700
- To: Krzysztof Maczyński <1981km@gmail.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Travis Leithead <travil@microsoft.com>, www-dom@w3.org
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
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