[bengillies]

right. undefined is falsy, but it's quite different to false (i.e. undefined !== false)

[lucideer]

true, but a boolean return value is expected for event listener callbacks.

[Stratoscope]

That's not quite how it works. jQuery checks specifically for false with an === comparison. It doesn't do anything like a !! on the return value to convert it to boolean true or false. It only calls stopPropagation and preventDefault when the return value is false, not just any falsy value.

I posted the jQuery code in a previous comment; take a look at that and you can see how it works.