Epic explanation. More of these should be said. :o
On 30 nov, 06:03, piotr_cz <pkoniec...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is so helpful that it should be in documentation.
> (Google doesn't effectively show results for it's own google groups)
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> On Nov 10, 8:59 pm, Arian Stolwijk <stolwijk.ar...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > There is a object defined and used by MooTools, called Element.NativeEvents.
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> > This is an object with all known DOM event types, like click, mouseover,
> > load, etc.
> > Each event type has a value, possible values are 0 (undefined, null), 1,
> > and 2.
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> > By default it is undefined. In this case you can add events, but you should
> > manually fire them. For example: element.addEvent('pizza', fn);
> > element.fireEvent('pizza', 'yum!'); The event is *not* actually added to
> > the DOM, but is only registered in a JS object.
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> > The second case is if the value is 1. This time the object is attached to
> > the DOM. Usually by element.addEventListener, or element.attacheEvent in
> > oldIE. You can still use element.fireEvent('load') to manually fire events.
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> > The final case is if the value is 2. This is the same as case 1. The only
> > difference is that the event object, containing interesting data, is
> > wrapped and normalized by event wrapper (DOMEvent). This is the most used
> > variant, for mouseevents (like click) and keyboard events.
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> > The reason to differentiate between 1 and 2 is that 1 is usually used for
> > events that don't have interesting data, like onload, onscroll, onresize.
> > Those last two fire an awful lot as well.
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> > The problem however, is that the event type has to be registered in the
> > object, otherwise it will handle the event as case 0. This can be done
> > with, for example:
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> > Element.NativeEvents.popstate = 2;
> > // Now element.addEvent('popstate', fn); will work everywhere
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> > More info can be found at pages 301-302 of Pro JavaScript with MooTools by
> > Keeto, or in the source code!
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> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:22 PM, zipz <anders.bergv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Can someone explain how I can get the popstate event to be fired, with
> > > ordinary mootools addEvent, when I use back/forward button in the
> > > browser.
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> > > This code does not work
> > > window.addEvent('popstate', function(event) {
> > > console.dir(event);
> > > });
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> > > This code does work
> > > window.onpopstate = function(stackstate) {
> > > console.dir(stackstate);
> > > };
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> > > I don't think it's possible to add this in jsfiddle.
