Re: Should event and accessKey timing respect preventDefault?

On 27 aug 2010, at 04:37, Brian Birtles wrote:

> (Cross-posting to www-smil and www-svg since although this is a SMIL
> issue it is probably recently of more concern to SVG implementers and
> authors.)
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> Dear all,
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> SMIL as incorporated in SVG allows for animations to be keyed off
> various DOM events such as mouse clicks (event timing) as well as
> keyboard inputs (accessKey timing).
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> One area that would benefit from clarification is whether animations
> should be triggered when preventDefault is called on the event in
> question (and presuming that event is cancelable).


I haven't looked closely at preventDefault (up until 2 minutes ago:-), =
but my impression is that it it should the opposite from what you =
suggest.
You seem to suggest
    someone calls event->preventDefault(), therefore the default action =
for the event on its target node doesn't happen.

My understanding is
  if the event comes in, and the target node decides not to take the =
default action for some reason, then it should also call =
event->preventDefault().

If my understanding is correct then I think there is no issue. =
Otherwise, could you point me to some references?
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