Backbone.View event inheritance problem

gistfile1.txt

var SuperView = Backbone.View.extend({
  events: {
    "click a.foo": "onFooClick"
  },
  onFooClick: function(event) {
    alert('onFooClick!');
  }
});

var SubView = SuperView.extend({
  events: {
    "click a.bar": "onBarClick"
  },
  
  onBlackButton: function(event) {
    alert('onBarClick!');
  }
});

I can propose you two solutions (one of them requiring changes in backbone). I commented it in my blog: http://kalimotxocoding.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-with-backbonejs-views.html

@ggarber I thought the point of Backbone was to prevent a long prototype-based inheritance chain. Any properties in the the child prototype object wil be used instead of the parent's.

Extending a view is good way of setting inheritance but I think you'll need an extra function that will mixin the properties of the event object.