Siterer Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]>:
Except there's no such thing as default action really...
IMO this is well established terminology and easy to understand for
script authors because of the preventDefault() method name.. I've
changed the text slightly though.
I don't really think the term is that clear personally and it's not in
DOM4 at the moment. The whole notion that an event would have a default
action is flawed. A particular action might have a default action
preceded by an event that if canceled, cancels the default action, but
I think it would be clearer to just say fire the event and if it was
canceled do not do this next step. Which is how DOM4 is modeled.
I think I see your point now from a technical point of view, but I
think we're close to splitting hairs here. The term "default action"
is simply a sort of language shortcut to say what happens when the
event is not cancelled. It's well established (just like I'd argue
"MIME type" is) and I see no real problems caused by its usage.
/Hallvord
