CustomEvent Bubbling and Capture Phase
Caridy Mayea, a well-known contributor for YUI, blogs about his technique to simulate the JavaScript Event Object native Bubbling and Capture Phases with CustomEvents. This is a good read whether you intend to use this technique, or you simply would like to understand the event phases better. Check it out:

[…] can safely ignore the capture option, unless you know what the capture phase […]
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