Return jquery.Event for chaining

[anonymous]

I think it would be nice for e.stopPropagation, e.stopImmediatePropagation and e.preventDefault to return the jQuery event object for chaining, I have checked and they currently do not return, so a return this statement should do the job. Then I can call:

e.preventDefault().stopPropagation();

[anonymous]

​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1262

[Rick Waldron]

Thanks but jQuery is not accepting new features at this time.

[dmethvin]

See the standard, those methods are void: ​http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-interface

Changing our event to do something different than the standard would be a really bad idea. There could be times in the future when we want to pass a native unnormalized event and adopting these semantics would prevent i