Wrong Konqueror information in Hiermenus 4.2.3 "releasenotes" ?

[David Faure]

On Saturday 06 April 2002 20:30, Stig Nygaard wrote:
> Hi Konqueror experts and developers
> 
> 
> Congratulations with the new Konqueror-release and the support in the latest release of Hiermenus. It's really cool !
> 
> Reading the "release-notes" of the new Hiermenus version, I found something I hope is an error in the description of Konquerors support of events. At the bottom of the page at http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column65/3.html it says:
> 
> > Event Target Elements
> > Konqueror uses the srcElement property of the event object to identify the element
> > that fired the event, like IE and unlike the NS browsers which use the target
> > property. And like IE, the Konqueror event object is created, and universally
> > available, whenever an event is fired. In NS, the event object is passed as an
> > argument to the event handler.
> 
> Doesn't Konqueror 3 supports the W3C DOM 2 and Netscape 6+ event model, including the target-proporty like Konqueror 2.x did ? 

Sure, Konqueror also supports "target".
Konqueror is modeled around the DOM, but has _extensions_ to be IE-compatible.
This means, it will run both DOM-compatible code, and IE-compatible code (to a certain extent).
Obviously we recommend using the DOM-specified APIs for any new code being written!

The bit about the event object in the global window object is true, but AFAIK this 
isn't only seen in IE, Mozilla does the same, doesn't it?

> I myself are still running KDE/Konqueror 2.2.1, so I haven't been able to test this myself, but if I'm right that they are wrong, they should be corrected.

Please tell them ;)

> No need to promote a non-standard Microsoft Event-model we aint supporting. (or if Konqueror support both models now, it would be nice if it was said Konqueror supports the W3C way too).

Yes.

> Yes, maybe I should just write the HierMenus team instead of you, but since I haven't tried the new release yet, I want to be absolutely sure I'm right Konqueror still supports the W3C DOM Event model and problably doesn't support the MSIE-way ?

Both.

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