Re: Simulating clicks on the DOM node of the GMAIL page.

On 2/27/08, Amit Saurav <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Boris,
>
>  I could not find the click handlers cuz the entire javascript on gmail
>  page is obfuscated and its impossible to figure out whats going on. I
>  thought of using the venkman debugger but could not find the exact
>  function that was called each time we click somethin on the page.
>
>  One question, can we disaptchEvents on text nodes?

You could try it out yourself, no?
Just add a click listener and dispatch the click event on it.

Regards,
Martijn

>  Thanks,
>  Amit
>
>
>  On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > Amit Saurav wrote:
>  > > For example, the emails, are also <span>
>  > > texts but when clicked by a user, the corresponding mails open.
>  >
>  > So it sounds like there is a click handler somewhere that does that.  Have you
>  > found it?  Have you made sure you're dispatching a click to some descendant of
>  > the node that has the handler?  If the handler checks event.target, you probably
>  > need to dispatch to a particular descendant, for that matter.
>  >
>  > In general, you probably just want to dispatch the click to whatever node
>  > (possibly a Text node!) the user would actually click on.
>  >
>  >
>  > -Boris
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