Events are not working properly on the release 0.15.3
Also, events like "blur", "focus", (bascially everything except "click") don't work in backbone events configuration (by that I mean view events in backbone: https://backbonejs.org/#View-events ). for example: if I attach a callback to a "focus" event , the callback is never called. But callbacks to the "click" events...
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Hi, The events mechanism seems have changed a lot since release 0.15x. For example, normally when we want to prevent the default button behavior, we will use "return false" at the end of the callback function, but this doesn't work anymore in this release (no matter what you return), I have to call "event.preventDefault()" manully. Another issue is that I can't use $.on to attach event listener. But using the pure JS method "addEventListener" is fine. I can't understand why but I believe this has something to do with the file "extender.js". It seems that you add something to deal with all eve...
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Also, events like "blur", "focus", (bascially everything except "click") don't work in backbone events configuration (by that I mean view events in backbone: https://backbonejs.org/#View-events ). for example: if I attach a callback to a "focus" event , the callback is never called. But callbacks t...
Can you please provide live examples of what was working in previous versions and what it doesn't now?
Example 1: Example 2: When I try to attach event listeners, only callback to the click events can be called
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