I’ve just discovered that both window.fireEvent and window.dispatchEvent are undefined in IE8, however document.fireEvent exists.
So how on earth do I trigger events for the window element in IE8?…
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It’s impossible. The way jQuery etc does this is by virtually emitting events within jQuery, rather than using the native event emitting.