- From: Jérôme Nègre <jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:14:11 +0100
- To: "Mikko Honkala" <Mikko.Honkala@hut.fi>, <www-forms@w3c.org>
> Hi Jerome, > > thanks for your feedback. I am reading the DOM Events spec little differently: > > * CAPTURE: the event goes down from doc node to the target node > * TARGET: the event reaches its target. > * BUBBLING the event goes back up to the doc node > Event can be cancelled at any stage by calling event.preventDefault(). > > This far we agree, but: > > Default actions are executed at each element within the normal event flow (in each element after the listeners AT THAT ELEMENT). > > So there is no 4th event phase where the default actions are executed, but instead they are executed within the normal > capture/bubbling phases. That's what I thought first, but how do you know that the default action has been canceled ? I only see a method defined in chapter 1.3.1, that is EventTarget.dispatchEvent(evt). And you get that result only after capture and bubbling phases. Am I missing something ? Jérôme
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