http://arapehlivanian.com/2008/05/16/a-nuance-of-preventing-default/ Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:12:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://arapehlivanian.com/2008/05/16/a-nuance-of-preventing-default/comment-page-1/#comment-40555 Nathan Smith Sat, 17 May 2008 03:11:37 +0000 http://arapehlivanian.com/?p=392#comment-40555 Very cool. I typically just lazily use "return false," to prevent links from being followed, but in the case of JS debugging, returning false would prematurely stop the script from executing. Your suggestion seems like a great way to stay on the current page, but still allow the buggy code to pass through so that Firebug can inspect it. Now I finally have a practical reason to use preventDefault(). I've seen the light. :) Very cool. I typically just lazily use “return false,” to prevent links from being followed, but in the case of JS debugging, returning false would prematurely stop the script from executing. Your suggestion seems like a great way to stay on the current page, but still allow the buggy code to pass through so that Firebug can inspect it. Now I finally have a practical reason to use preventDefault(). I’ve seen the light. :)

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