Problem with preventing click event

[madmaniak]

I have such definition in layout:

        def ontap
                Dispatcher.trigger "cancel"

And it prevents me from using native <a> tag. Browser is not reacting after click.
I'm not calling e.halt or e.cancel so I expect none event will be blocked by above definition.

I think it happens here:

        Imba.Events.register('click',function(e) {
            // Only for main mousebutton, no?
            if ((e.timeStamp - lastNativeTouchTimeStamp) > lastNativeTouchTimeout) {
                var tap = new Imba.Event(e);
                tap.setType('tap');
                tap.process();
                if (tap._responder) {
                    return e.preventDefault(); // <---- HERE!
                };
            };
            // delegate the real click event
            return Imba.Events.delegate(e);
        });

[somebee]

You found the right place, thanks for digging into it yourself :)

ontap is a special case because it unifies touches (mobile etc) and mouse. If you use onclick instead it should work as expected. We should add a clean method for letting the tap through, but right now it will cancel the native click if any tags respond to the event with ontap. This is a hack, but you can work around it by doing:

def ontap e
    e.@responder = null
    Dispatcher.trigger "cancel"

[madmaniak]

OK this hack works 👍

[madmaniak]

But the order matters and it should be:

def ontap e
    Dispatcher.trigger "cancel"
    e.@responder = null

[somebee]

What is this Dispatcher? Seems strange that is should matter since the code that checks for e.@responder is synchronously following ontap.

[madmaniak]

Dispatcher is Backbone:Events.