Are you familiar with return false in jQuery?
doing:
function(){
doStuff();
return false;
}
has the same effect as your stop method. Does that help you?
--John
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:36 PM, machineghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a former MochiKit user I'm continually impressed by how well jQuery
> does everything that MochiKit can do, only better. However, there is
> one very minor convenience feature that MochiKit had that I miss: in
> Mochikit's abstracted event object (ie. the thing your event handling
> callbacks receive as an argument) there is a method, in addition to
> preventDefault and stopPropagation, called simply "stop". All this
> method does is invoke those two other methods, so it would be super-
> easy to add it to jQuery. If we did, it would turn code like this:
>
> function someCallback(event) {
> event.stopPropagation();
> event.preventDefault();
> doSomething();
> }
>
> in to this:
>
> function someCallback(event) {
> event.stop();
> doSomething();
> }
>
> which (to me at least) seems a lot cleaner.
>
> So ... what can I do to make this happen? Who decides whether
> something like this gets added, and what can I do to convince them
> that it's worth adding?
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
> >
>
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