14. A method, comprising: at an electronic device having a touch-sensitive surface: displaying one or more views of a plurality of views, wherein: a first view of the one or more displayed views includes a plurality of gesture recognizers; the plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers; each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states; and a first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view has a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view; wherein the state of the first proxy gesture recognizer and the corresponding state of the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer are both selected from a same set of predefined states; detecting a sequence of one or more sub-events; delivering a respective sub-event to the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view and at least a subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view; and processing the respective sub-event with at least one of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view in accordance with states of the first proxy gesture recognizer and at least the subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view.
14. A method, comprising: at an electronic device having a touch-sensitive surface: displaying one or more views of a plurality of views, wherein: a first view of the one or more displayed views includes a plurality of gesture recognizers; the plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers; each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states; and a first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view has a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view; wherein the state of the first proxy gesture recognizer and the corresponding state of the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer are both selected from a same set of predefined states; detecting a sequence of one or more sub-events; delivering a respective sub-event to the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view and at least a subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view; and processing the respective sub-event with at least one of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view in accordance with states of the first proxy gesture recognizer and at least the subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view. 18. The method of claim 14 , further comprising at the electronic device having the touch-sensitive surface: delaying at least a first non-proxy gesture recognizer of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view from recognizing a gesture that corresponds to the sequence of one or more sub-events until after the first proxy gesture recognizer enters into a particular predefined state of the one or more predefined states.