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Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] what is dispatchEvent and is it needed?
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, Karl Dahlke wrote:

>> dispatchEvent(button,"click")
>
> At first glance this seems silly, as one can call button.onclick() to run that function,

Yes.. there must be some reason.  Well, it's parameterized, right?
Maybe easier to use with something like

for each element in (a b c d)
for each event in (click blah blah2 blah3)

I dunno.