- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:16:51 +0000 (UTC)
- To: lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, W3C CSS List <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Why can't it just detect if an event handler is attached to it during > the capture, or bubble phase? Doing that is quite inefficient since you have to check the entire ancestor tree for capture and bubbling handlers, the element itself, any forwarded event handlers from an XBL binding, any XML Event handlers on all of those (if those aren't implemented as normal event handlers), and for an event handler attribute. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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