Chapter 6. Events are where it happens!
This chapter covers
- The event models as implemented by the browsers
- The jQuery event model
- Binding event handlers to DOM elements
- Event delegation
- Namespacing events
- The Event object instance
- Triggering event handlers under script control
- Registering proactive event handlers
Like many other GUI management systems, the interfaces presented by HTML web pages are asynchronous and event-driven, even if the protocol used to deliver them to the browser, HTTP, is wholly synchronous in nature. Whether a GUI is implemented as a desktop program using Java Swing, X11, or the .NET Framework, or as a page in a web application using HTML and JavaScript, the program steps are pretty much the same:
1. Set ...
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