Recently I came across something that surprised me in Dijit. I suppose it is well known that ContentPane does not implement onClick. I found that strange (especially as I was trying to help someone connect to his ContentPane's onClick), so my first question is why? Of course I realize that the Dijit's domNode has a native onclick to which I can connect and get the same result. This got us to wondering is there a reason to prefer using a Dijit's event over the underlying native event, other than convenience? For instance why would I prefer