necolas / event-shim.js

A W3C DOM Event API shim for IE 8

event-shim.js

A W3C DOM Event API shim for IE 8 (as far as possible).

Installation

Install with Bower:

bower install --save event-shim.js

API

Provides the following properties and methods for IE 8.

Event interface

Properties

• bubbles
• defaultPrevented
• relatedTarget
• target

Methods

• preventDefault()
• stopPropagation()

EventTarget interface

The following methods are added to Element, HTMLDocument, and window.

• addEventListener()
• removeEventListener()

Testing

Install Node (comes with npm).

From the repo root, install the project's development dependencies:

npm install

Testing relies on the Karma test-runner. If you'd like to use Karma to automatically watch and re-run the test file during development, it's easiest to globally install Karma and run it from the CLI.

npm install -g karma
karma start

Acknowledgements

Inspired by eventShim

event-shim.js's Issues

Upgrade to Karma 0.10

Improve removeEventListener implementation

Avoid iterating through an array each time.

Add dispatchEvent