Re: Is 'DOMFocusIn' supported?

Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> I see the 'DOMFocusIn' event type listed on two pages on DMO:
> 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM_Events#DOMFocusIn
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM_Client_Object_Cross-Reference/DOM_Events 
> 
> 
> I see it also listed in the event list of the Event Spy [1] extension.
> 
> I bascially have an HTML page with some focusable elements (form 
> controls, hyper-links) and register an event handler on the #document 
> node like:
> 
> document.addEventListener("DOMFocusIn", myHandler, false);
> 
> My event handler gets never invoked.  The same thing appears to work in 
> Opera and Safari.  Is 'DOMFocusIn' supported and specifically in web pages?

It doesn't seem to be implemented in Mozilla, as 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396927 suggests. The 
comments there conclude that you could instead use a capturing event 
listener for the focus event.


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