Make sure that we don't try to trigger non-existant native events on applets, embed, objects, etc. as it'll cause an exception with Java applets. Fixes #2414.

jeresig · jeresig · commit 3ec2f1aef6b1 · 2009-12-09T14:49:31.000-08:00
diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
@@ -253,8 +253,10 @@ jQuery.event = {
 
 		var nativeFn, nativeHandler;
 		try {
-			nativeFn = elem[ type ];
-			nativeHandler = elem[ "on" + type ];
+			if ( !(elem && elem.nodeName && jQuery.noData[elem.nodeName.toLowerCase()]) ) {
+				nativeFn = elem[ type ];
+				nativeHandler = elem[ "on" + type ];
+			}
 		// prevent IE from throwing an error for some elements with some event types, see #3533
 		} catch (e) {}
 
