- From: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:30:01 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, arv <arv@google.com>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 2/29/12 11:41 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: >> >> What if we just make it traverse using parentNode accessor? > > > That's not quite what DOM objects do. > > More precisely, messing with the parentNode that JS sees directly, has > absolutely no effect on the event dispatch flow. Right--and that part would still have to stay that way for a while. However, for non-DOM objects, we can use parentNode to create event ancestor lists and that would be nifty in the sense of consistency. Also, I remember arv and Alex having some thoughts on this subject. Maybe their thoughts are more interesting than mine. > > -Boris >
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