window.fireEvent and window.dispatchEvent are both undefined in IE8

Question

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?...

Answer 1

It's impossible. The way jQuery etc does this is by virtually emitting events within jQuery, rather than using the native event emitting.