The class qx.event.Manager provides a per-document wrapper for cross-browser DOM event handling. The implementation of the new 0.8 event layer is inside the qx.event namespace.

The following features work in all supported browsers (Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox 1.5/2, Opera, Safari3/Webkit) :

• Canceling events: stopPropagation()
• Skipping the browser’s default behavior: preventDefault()
• Unified event objects matching the DOM 2 event interface http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-interface
• Cross-browser event bubbling and capturing phase, even in Internet Explorer
• Mouse event capturing http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537630.aspx
• Port of the unified qooxdoo 0.7 key event handler to the 0.8 low-level layer (Key Event Handling).
• Unified mouse events
  • Normalized double click event sequence mousedown → mouseup → click → mousedown → mouseup → click → doubleclick) in Internet Explorer
  • Normalized right click sequence mousedown → mouseup → contextmenu in Safari 3 and Opera.
  • Always fire click events if the mouseup happens on a different target than the corresponding mousedown event. Natively only Internet Explorer behaves like that.