Rails spinoffs - Jun 2006 - RE: Yahoo!-like Event objectemulation/abstractioninPrototype?

> Hehe thanks for putting so much work into this, but to me it certainly
> begs my original question. Any chance of making "e" work the same
in
> FF and IE?
You''re missing the point.  The ''e'' object in IE and
Firefox has
different functions for getting at different things.  The Yahoo toolkit
does not do that for you either.  In their toolkit, you have to call
YAHOO.util.Event.xxxx instead of Event.xxxx in prototype.  Either way,
you have to do something to get at event information in a
non-browser-specific sort of way.  Yahoo goes one step further and
passes the element in to the function, so you avoid having to call the
equivalent of prototype''s Event.element(e); but to get at any other
information (target, x/y position, etc) you have to use one or the other
API.

It all goes back to the W3C wanting to say a big F*** YOU to Microsoft
and implementing event handling in a totally different way than any of
the old browsers had, including Netscape and IE.  And MS just kept their
simple version intact, while the rest of the browsers went ahead and did
the w3c model (Opera supports both, AFAIK).

Having said all that, somebody *could* implement something like what you
want, but it would take some work.  You''d have to create a class that
implemented all of the functions of both event models, and create an
object of that class in the bindAsEventListener method, and pass it
along to the function.

Sounds like an interesting theoretical exercise, I might tinker with it
a bit to avoid working on the lame project I have at the moment.

Greg