Re: Event target in browsers

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Event target in browsers
Date	2014-05-30 21:38 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
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Christoph Michael Becker wrote:

> Cezary Tomczyk wrote:
>> True, I forgot about "window.event" for IE < 9. For browsers that do not
>> support "currentTarget" Christoph mention about solution, also I'll take
>> a look at http://pointedears.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/dom/events.js.
> 
> If you are referring to my comment regarding "this", be aware that this
> will not work for IE/MSHTML < 9.

It will work there, but …

> See
> <http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/08/addevent_consid.html>
> for details and
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/event.currentTarget#Browser_compatibility>
> for a workaround that may be viable.

… not if you use the MSHTML-proprietary attachEvent().  So you are better 
off not calling that method.  See also the comment in JSX:dom/events.js.

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Event target in browsers Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 20:03 +0200
  Re: Event target in browsers Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-29 22:35 +0200
    Re: Event target in browsers Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-30 13:26 +0200
      Re: Event target in browsers Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-30 14:31 +0200
        Re: Event target in browsers Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-30 17:50 +0200
          Re: Event target in browsers Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-01 22:19 +0200
    Re: Event target in browsers Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 20:04 +0200
      Re: Event target in browsers Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-30 20:22 +0200
        Re: Event target in browsers Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 20:43 +0200
          Re: Event target in browsers Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-30 21:47 +0200
            Re: Event target in browsers Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-30 22:29 +0200
              Re: Event target in browsers Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-31 00:07 +0200
                Re: Event target in browsers Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-02 14:53 +0200
                Re: Event target in browsers Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-02 21:41 +0200
        Re: Event target in browsers Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-30 21:38 +0200

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