How to re-trigger (or late-trigger) a `mousedown` event in jQuery?

One question bugs my mind lately: In a mousedown handler I use .preventDefault on the event to prevent 开发者_如何学JAVAtext selection while dragging:

$(document).bind('mousedown', function(event){
    event.preventDefault();
});

So far so good.

Then, while still having the mouse button pressed down, I would like to wait for a longclick event to be triggered (http://github.com/pisi/Longclick) and have the longclick handler to somehow resume the original mousedown event and commence the text selection like if the event's default wasn't ever prevented.

Is there a way to kind of late-trigger an otherwise native mouse event?

Is .trigger capable to somehow accept an existing (stored) event object? For example something like this?:

var originalEvent;

$(document)
    .bind('mousedown', function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        originalEvent= event;
    })
    .bind('longclick', function(event){
        $(event.target).trigger(originalEvent)
    })

I'm after being able to drag an entire text paragraph and still offer the possibility to perform text selection within the paragraph.

All answers, suggestions and thoughts are welcome!

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Passing an event object to trigger works as far as jQuery is concerned (event handlers bound with jQuery will be executed, and receive the object as a parameter), which allows you to do cool stuff like this, but no default action will take place. Most browsers support the DOM level 2 specification, dispatchEvent, except for the usual suspect, which has fireEvent instead, which is pretty useless as it does not trigger the default action.