Quick Link: Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!'s Event

Dustin Diaz goes in depth on Yahoo!'s event handling. The biggest plus is the ability to attach a handler to an object before it exists in the DOM. I suspect we'll see something like this in Prototype soon enough.

Published March 07, 2006 · Updated September 14, 2006
Categorized as Quick Links
Short URL: http://snook.ca/s/540

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Justin Palmer said on March 07, 2006

I've patched Prototype to include this functionality. Sam says that he digs it and will be adding it to the distribution soon. Ticket is here: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3940

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Jonathan Snook said on March 07, 2006

You the man Justin. :)

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Dustin Diaz said on March 08, 2006

Justin, That's awesome man. Good to hear Prototype is going this route. You guys rock!

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