[whatwg] Re: media types

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jim Ley wrote:
> > >
> > > "web apps is defined"  but web apps is an extremely early draft, seen
> > > as this has been identified as a reasonable requirement, it would be
> > > trivial at this early stage to change what web apps defines.
> > 
> > In this particular case, Web Apps is merely reflecting interoperable
> > implementation of the interaction of DOM Level 0 and the W3C DOM specs.
> 
> defaultView, multiple stylesheets etc. are not DOM 0 or at all
> interopable, so I do not accept that Web apps  is at all reflecting
> the current behaviour.

defaultView is DOM2 Views. window is DOM Level 0. There is 
interoperability in the implementation of defaultView pointing to window.


> > > then that needs to be fixed, otherwise all event handing will break, 
> > > (the speech mode fires events and works on the default view of the 
> > > projection mode...)
> > 
> > There's no difference in event bubbling in different views.
> 
> Nope, I realise you don't do much scripting, but one of the things you 
> normally do with events in layout environments, is retrieve the element 
> you get back, then check it's size, or position - to do that you need 
> the computed CSS values - so you need to be accessing the defaultView, 
> if you're not accessing the defaultView of the element that fired the 
> event, you can't do anything!

As I said, the view that the event actually fired on is included in the 
event data, so W3C DOM Events already takes care of this.

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