jQuery's live events don't work

[madadam]

Hello there,

Seems capybara-envjs has troubles with jQuery's live events. If an event listener is bound using bind(), everything works fine, but if using live(), it does not. I put together simple example to demonstrate it:

http://github.com/madadam/capybara-envjs-jquery-live-failure-example

Just run ruby -rubygems test.rb to see it. With selenium driver, it works fine, with envjs, it fails.

[smparkes]

Yup. Known issue. But so far, no one that has the need to make it work has stepped up to work on it, I'm afraid.

[madadam]

I'd step up, why not :) Is the problem only in capybara-envjs or is it envjs itself?

[smparkes]

That'd be cool, if you could.

The problem is in envjs itself and it might be fixed in the Java master (we want to remerge, but it's going take a chunk of time we never seem to find ... the java master underwent a big reorg after the ruby port, before a merge).

The relevant code in the ruby branch is in window/event.js, dispatchEvent in particular. I haven't been tracking what this looks like in the java master lately.

[kevintraver]

If you try calling a focus before clicking the element, it seems to work:

page.execute_script %Q{ $("#derp").trigger("focus") }
find("#derp").click