On 30 August 2010 01:28, Jack Jansen
<Jack.Jansen@...> wrote:
Thanks to Rick's clarification I now retract my original analysis: I think Brian's original analysis is correct.
The situation is indeed an event listener calling event.preventDefault() to stop normal processing.
With this new understanding, it would seem most logical that a call to preventDefault() would indeed forestall the event starting the element.
Thanks Jack for looking into this. Sorry for me delay in following this up.
I think this behaviour needs to be specified.
There seems to be an understanding that clarifications in recent versions of SMIL should be back-ported to SMIL Animation / SVG so perhaps an erratum for SMIL 3 would do the trick. Otherwise, perhaps this could be defined as host-language dependent (again, in an erratum) and then specified in SVG. Personally I prefer the former since SMIL 3 already makes reference to closely-related behaviour such as event bubbling but you'll know best what's the right course.
Thanks again,
Brian Birtles
