Very good point. I added some additional tests to the delegation suite and I've come to the same conclusion as you: implementing focusin/focusout across all browsers gives us much better parity.
I've landed the new code here: http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/03481a52c72e417b01cfeb499f26738cf5ed5839 Thanks for your recommendation - it's really appreciated! --John On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:13 AM, alexander farkas <a.farkas...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The bubbling focus and blur events seems to be implemented incorrect > and in a very strange way. > > 1. support.focusBubbles is true in all browsers (only testet in IE8 > and FF3.5), but should be false in all browsers > 2. If support.focusbubbles would be false, wich never is the case, > focusin/focusout are bound, wich are only supported by IE. > > Following the W3C specification focus/blur are not bubbling events and > therefore doesn´t need to be fixed / overwritten with a not working / > not standard compilant implementation. Instead you should provide new > events, like jQuery already did with mouseenter/mouseleave. > > The W3C has its DOMfocusin/DOMfocusout events (only implemented in > Opera and very verbose) and Microsoft has its own focusin/focusout > events (already used in a lot of jQuery Plugins, because of Jörns > implementation (http://view.jquery.com/trunk/plugins/delegate/ > jquery.delegate.js)). In all W3C compilant Browsers you can simply > emulate bubbling focus/blur, by using event capturing instead of event > bubbling. > > An implementation doesn´t need a support flag. The only check is, > wether the browser supports event capturing. > > //original by jörn zaefferer > // if event capturing is supported use this, else try the native MS > events > if (document.addEventListener) { > $.each({ > focus: 'focusin', > blur: 'focusout' > }, function(original, fix){ > $.event.special[fix] = { > setup: function(){ > this.addEventListener(original, > $.event.special[fix].handler, > true); > }, > teardown: function(){ > this.removeEventListener(original, > $.event.special[fix].handler, > true); > }, > handler: function(e){ > arguments[0] = $.event.fix(e); > arguments[0].type = fix; > return $.event.handle.apply(this, arguments); > } > }; > }); > } > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jQuery Development" group. > To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en.
