Re: Clarification on mouseenter/mouseleave from Sean Hogan on 2010-07-01 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2010)

From: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:10:18 +1000
To: João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com>
CC: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4C2BEAFA.6020307@westnet.com.au>

  On 29/06/10 11:08 AM, João Eiras wrote:
> After further review I got confused. IE does set the target to the 
> inner element, it fires the listeners on both the inner element and 
> outer element, but doesn't bubble up to the body.
> Does this mean that the user agent has to fire an event for each node 
> that is unhovered, each one with their separate capturing phases ?
>
>
>

Looks like it.
And the W3C DOM model won't haven't an equivalent to fromElement - for 
mouseleave - and toElement - for mouseenter. I can't see a need for 
them, but would be nice to know how they are being used on the web.

Received on Thursday, 1 July 2010 01:11:04 UTC