"Microsoft took the opposite approach and came up with event bubbling. They believed that the event should begin at the actual target and then fire on the paren

"Microsoft took the opposite approach and came up with event bubbling. They believed that the event should begin at the actual target and then fire on the parents and so on up to the document." Not original with Microsoft. Appeared in Apple's Hypercard. (Proving again that it's not how you feel, it's how you look.)