You are "relaying" the event from the parent down to the child. The child is "delegating" the event handling to the parent.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Sanford Whiteman <[email protected]>wrote: > > I can't help myself from thinking that ":delegate" would be more > appropriate > > syntax for Event Delegation. > > Depends on how you read the pseudo. As I read the concept, you are > "delegating" the handling to the upper element you are addEvent-ing, > not "delegating" to the descendant element. I agree that :relay is > pretty arbitrary, but :delegate is misleading. > > Is there really a canonical term for this? Maybe :runat or something. > > -- S. > > > > >
