as universally approved on discussions on dev list, replace new Object() with {}. all tests pass ff & ie6

git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@3814 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf

lib/OpenLayers/Events.js

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ OpenLayers.Event = {
 
         //if observers cache has not yet been created, create it
         if (!this.observers) {
-            this.observers = new Object();
+            this.observers = {};
         }
 
         //if not already assigned, make a new unique cache ID
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ OpenLayers.Events = OpenLayers.Class({
         this.element    = element;
         this.eventTypes = eventTypes;
         this.fallThrough = fallThrough;
-        this.listeners  = new Object();
+        this.listeners  = {};
 
         // keep a bound copy of handleBrowserEvent() so that we can
         // pass the same function to both Event.observe() and .stopObserving()
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ OpenLayers.Events = OpenLayers.Class({
 
         // prep evt object with object & div references
         if (evt == null) {
-            evt = new Object();
+            evt = {};
         }
         evt.object = this.object;
         evt.element = this.element;