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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Event target in browsers
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 21:38:23 +0200
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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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