Comments on: Stealing Events via Capture

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:47:41 +0000

The implementations of capture are (shock horror) different in IE from Firefox as well so they don’t quite do the same thing. I believe that in IE the event is captured no matter what DOM element it occurs on whereas in Firefox it obeys W3C and only captures events in the ancestor path of the DOM element on which the event occured.

By: Nicholas C. Zakas

Nicholas C. Zakas — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:48:32 +0000

He makes a good attempt at explaining capturing, but the confusing use of “events” versus “event listeners” in the article is problematic. There is only one type of event but there are two ways to listen to it (on the capturing phase and on the bubbling phase).

By: Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:52:51 +0000

On IE, you have to use setCapture/releaseCapture in order to capture mouse events (only mouse events can be captured on IE)

By: Ajax 2.0 Developer

Ajax 2.0 Developer — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:54:39 +0000

I don’t believe IE’s attachEvent supports capture (correct me if I am wrong). While capturing is a nice capability of most browsers, without capturing available on IE, capturing isn’t really on option for cross browser apps, hence its lack of use.