+1 for not taking away the ability to pass in the event type as a string to trigger. I think it would break a lot of pre-existing code if that were to happen.
--Karl ____________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Nov 29, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Brandon Aaron wrote: > I like this as well but I definitely wouldn't take away the ability > to just pass in the event type as a string to trigger. I don't want > to have to create an event object every time I want to trigger an > event but wouldn't mind passing it in if I already had it on hand. > This will provide a nice way to extend the event object itself. I > believe Nathan Hammond was asking about this in a thread recently on > this list. > > -- > Brandon Aaron > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Feedback please! :) > > I really like (and support) this feature. > > http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3662 > > Also... I know that the returned value from jQuery.fn.trigger is used > here and there (jQuery UI?). But that behavior is really odd and > fragile in my opinion (false overrides any previous value). > > I think it'd be nice to return true/false depending on whether > e.preventDefault() was called. This would be very useful for custom > events, to allow event handlers to stop a scheduled (custom) behavior. > > As an alternative, we could add e.isDefaultPrevented() that retrieves > this value from the event object. > > Note that none of this last 2 behaviors (or the one in the ticket) is > my invention. > I'm just imitating AS3's event system. I suppose that belongs to some > EcmaScript specification as well. > > http://docs.brajeshwar.com/as3/flash/events/Event.html > > Thanks > > -- > Ariel Flesler > http://flesler.blogspot.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
