On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:07:42 +0200, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Web Applications Working Group Issue
Tracker <[email protected]> wrote:
ISSUE-118 (dispatchEvent links): Consider allowing dispatchEvent for
generic event duplication for links [DOM3 Events]
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/118
Raised by: Doug Schepers
On product: DOM3 Events
Simon Pieters wrote in
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010AprJun/0041.html> :
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Is it defined what should happen in the following case?
<div onclick="document.links[0].dispatchEvent(event)">click me</div>
<a href="http://example.org/";>test</a>
It seems Firefox and Opera throw an exception, while WebKit allows the
event to be dispatched.
I think it seems like a neat thing to be able to do, for making table
rows or <canvas> clickable. (However the event shouldn't be a 'trusted'
event in that case, of course.) To make it work today you'd have to
create a new event and copy over all properties, which is annoying.
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Even if we make this dispatch the event, it wouldn't make the link be
followed — since the event isn't dispatched by the UA, there's no
default action.
Chrome follows the link, though.
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/573
There is, in any case, a simpler solution to the
above:
<div onclick="document.links[0].click()">click me</div>
<a href="http://example.org/";>test</a>
True.
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
