Web Applications Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
ISSUE-44 (EventsAndWindow): Should DOM3 Events cover the interaction of events and the Window object? [DOM3 Events] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/44 Raised by: Ian Hickson On product: DOM3 Events We need to decide whether HTML5 or DOM3 Events (or another spec) defines how events interact with the Window object that browsers have. Right now HTML5 says this: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#events0 ....and DOM3 Events says this: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/DOM-Level-3-Events/html/DOM3-Events.html#events-Events-flow
Could we actually just say that if document implements DocumentView interface and .defaultView isn't null and implements EventTarget, the event propagates to .defaultView. So in that case defaultView becomes the root of the event target chain (if the target of the event is bound to document). No need to mention Window, since AbstractView is already defined in DOM2 Views[1]. HTML5 defines that AbstractView must also implement Window and EventTarget interfaces. [2] -Olli [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Views/ [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#window
