193548 - Testcase for javascript object button handleEvent

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030215
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030215

At the following url:
http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/javascript/tcmatrix/index.html, you
are given the option to perform the handleEvent() test. However when you click
on the url which takes you here:
http://mozilla.org/quality/ngdriver/suites/javascript/but011.html . You get a
not found error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/javascript/tcmatrix/index.html
2. Click on the but011.html hyperlink to
http://mozilla.org/quality/ngdriver/suites/javascript/but011.html
3.

Actual Results:  
You get a not found error

Expected Results:  
It should have performed the test for handleEvent()

Comment 1

[Patrick Xia]

not browser

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Sending to DOM HTML, this test needs to be written.

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

Now that I think about it... why should HTMLButtonElement have a handleEvent
method? Should this test even exist?

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The only handleEvent() method that exists in the DOM is on the EventListener
method, and no elements are expected to implement that interface, so this seems
like a bogus test to me.

Comment 5

[Gérard Talbot]

"Any object that can register event handlers is an event receiver. This method
[handleEvent] explicitly calls the event handler of the event receiver and
bypasses the capturing hierarchy."
http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/guide/evnt.html#1010446

It seems to me that this is what dispatchEvent method does in DOM 2 Events.
"This method [dispatchEvent] allows the dispatch of events into the
implementations event model. Events dispatched in this manner will have the same
capturing and bubbling behavior as events dispatched directly by the
implementation. The target of the event is the EventTarget on which
dispatchEvent is called."
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-EventTarget-dispatchEvent

Comment 6

[Gérard Talbot]

As far as I can see, NS 4.x handleEvent has been removed from all possible
objects (or likely was never implemented in Mozilla-based browsers) and DOM 2
Events dispatchEvent method is the appropriate replacement to use.
handleEvent method is not working in 5 years old NS 6.1 (rv: 0.9.2) but
dispatchEvent is; I can't find a single Mozilla-based browser which support
handleEvent according to NS 4.x specs.

Component -> DOM: Events

Resolving as INVALID