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From: James Kirk <noneya.invalid@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: custom event in IE
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:52:12 -0500
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Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/01/2017 12:45 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

>> Andrew Poulos wrote:

>>> On 10/01/2017 12:08 PM, Andrew Poulos wrote: 

[snip]

>>> I've solved it. I was looking in MDN and not MSDN. 

>> Care to share? 

> I used a try/catch and when it fails for IE the "catch" part uses 
> initCustomEvent
> <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff975987(v=vs.85).aspx>
> to create the event:

I have always tried to avoid using try/catch. So just out of my own
curiosity, why the try/catch over something liking to the function from:

[url]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomEvent/CustomEvent#Polyfill[/url]

or testing in a similar fashion to that function.

[snip]

-- 
James Kirk