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  1. Magnolia
  2. MAGNOLIA-1085

deprecated js method warning when using firefox 2

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    • Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 3.5 RC1
    • 3.0 RC2
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      Firefox 2rc1 complains (in the error console) about the use of the nonstandard captureEvents() call in Magnolia code:
      Warning: Use of captureEvents() is deprecated, see bug 330494

      this reports a forward compatibility problem but, at the moment, it's just annoying to see all those logs in the console.

      some more info gathered from firefox dev lists:

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      The supported events did not change, it's just that using the
      non-standrard window.captureEvents method to listen for events will
      break in the next version of Gecko (1.9 - the engine for Firefox 3).

      You should use the W3C events API instead - specifically
      addEventListener. There are quite a few documents and tutorials
      explaining the W3C events system, read some of them (I like the
      explanation and the illustration in the DOM Level 3 Events draft).

      Even though W3C DOM Level 2 Events specification doesn't have a key
      event module, Gecko supports the usual key events, 'keypress'
      included.

      Documentation is available on MDC
      (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Gecko_DOM_Reference ), but some
      of its pages are not of good enough quality yet, so be careful. Once
      you figure something out, you're welcome to improve the docs. The W3C
      specifications are a good source of information too, except for the
      places where we don't follow the spec.

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              vivi Vivian Steller
              fgiust Fabrizio Giustina
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