Jonas Sicking wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Olli Pettay wrote:
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]
Fine by me, so long as the result is compatible with most UAs.
One very unfortunate thing is that if i recall correctly the Window
object never takes part in the EventTarget chain for the 'load' event.
But does for all other events. This was because a lot of sites broke
when we tried to bubble 'load' to the Window.
/ Jonas
Sure, load events are special case, like mentioned in
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#events0.
Because of web compatibility the load event which is dispatched when a
page is loaded has also other quirks, at least in gecko; it is
dispatched to window, but its target is document.
But in usual case events should propagate to .defaultView
-Olli
