Re: ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:27:00 +0200, Ian Hickson wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be > followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no > default action. Chrome follows the link, though. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/573 File a bug. :-) http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=49976 -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
Re: ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be > > followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no > > default action. > > Chrome follows the link, though. > > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/573 File a bug. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:07:42 +0200, Ian Hickson wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/118 Raised by: Doug Schepers On product: DOM3 Events Simon Pieters wrote in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010AprJun/0041.html> : [[ Is it defined what should happen in the following case? click me http://example.org/";>test It seems Firefox and Opera throw an exception, while WebKit allows the event to be dispatched. I think it seems like a neat thing to be able to do, for making table rows or clickable. (However the event shouldn't be a 'trusted' event in that case, of course.) To make it work today you'd have to create a new event and copy over all properties, which is annoying. ]] Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no default action. Chrome follows the link, though. http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/573 There is, in any case, a simpler solution to the above: click me http://example.org/";>test True. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
Re: ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > > ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic > event duplication for links [DOM3 Events] > > http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/118 > > Raised by: Doug Schepers > On product: DOM3 Events > > Simon Pieters wrote in > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010AprJun/0041.html> : > [[ > Is it defined what should happen in the following case? > > click me > http://example.org/";>test > > It seems Firefox and Opera throw an exception, while WebKit allows the event > to be dispatched. > > I think it seems like a neat thing to be able to do, for making table rows or > clickable. (However the event shouldn't be a 'trusted' event in that > case, of course.) To make it work today you'd have to create a new event and > copy over all properties, which is annoying. > ]] Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no default action. There is, in any case, a simpler solution to the above: click me http://example.org/";>test -- Ian Hickson
ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/118 Raised by: Doug Schepers On product: DOM3 Events Simon Pieters wrote in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010AprJun/0041.html> : [[ Is it defined what should happen in the following case? click me http://example.org/";>test It seems Firefox and Opera throw an exception, while WebKit allows the event to be dispatched. I think it seems like a neat thing to be able to do, for making table rows or clickable. (However the event shouldn't be a 'trusted' event in that case, of course.) To make it work today you'd have to create a new event and copy over all properties, which is annoying. ]]
