- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:09:26 -0400
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- CC: Daniel Bratell <bratell@opera.com>, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
On 10/24/13 10:12 AM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > (I'm naively curious why they didn't fire a different "click" event name > for their internal stuff that needed it on middle click, instead of > introducing yet another bizarre glitch onto the Web.) I think you have it backwards. The DOM spec back when this was implemented in Gecko required firing clicks for all mouse clicks (and in fact the click event said which button got clicked). When Gecko implemented the spec as written, this was discovered to be not compatible with web sites. Note that the spec was somewhat abandonware at that point, in that the working group that had written it no longer existed. So given that, Gecko implemented as minimal a spec violation as possible that was still compatible with sites. Maybe we should have gone for a bigger spec violation, but please don't make it out like this was driven solely by "internal stuff". -Boris
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