Re: event.returnValue

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen
<hallvord@opera.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> IE lets you prevent the default action of an event by setting
> event.returnValue to false. Since both Opera and WebKit support this
> property it might be a good idea to standardise it?

Can you point to any pages that break without this feature? I looked
through bugzilla and found a few bugs that mention event.returnValue,
but most of them seemed to also use a lot of other functionality that
was specific to IEs event model. For example:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139421

The only bug I could find that was filed specifically for event.returnValue is

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271528

However bz indicates there that returnValue doesn't make much sense
outside of IEs event model. There were also *no* counter comments
asking for reconsidering the bug resolution.

/ Jonas

Received on Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:58:02 UTC