[whatwg] will all event types bubble? e.g. focus

Olli Pettay Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi
Thu Feb 14 01:09:55 PST 2008


Peter Michaux wrote:
 > Using delegate listeners in JavaScript is a technique that has grown
 > quite popular.
Not sure what you mean here - I may guess it right or wrong.
A minimal example would be always useful.

 > Not all event types bubble, however, so using pure
 > delegate solutions is impossible.
So this 'delegate' technique doesn't work well with capturing event 
listeners?

 > Will the DOM2 non-bubbling event
 > types, like focus, bubble in the new DOM standard?
Why you ask this here? W3C is producing the next DOM 3 Events spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/

-Olli

 >
 > Thanks,
 > Peter
 >



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