[Javascript] User Experience: mousedown vs click

[Troy III Ajnej]

Well, that's up to you and your decision only.

Sometimes you are forced to use both the onmouse and the onclick event at 
once and you will be very happy that both events exist in one mouse click.
using onmousedown to change the value of some action, and executing it only 
after you are very sure that the value is updated just in time to get 
executed will be experienced like lifesaving.

Selfmaiden buttons, will require all of the click fazes to get the job well 
done. mosedown mouseup and finally the click for setting appropirate 
properties and the look.

But the end-user is not required to know or be aware about any of this.

regards



>From: "Mike Dougherty" <mdougherty at pbp.com>
>Reply-To: "\[JavaScript List\]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>To: "\[JavaScript List\]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>Subject: [Javascript] User Experience: mousedown vs click
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:12:02 -0400
>
>Technically, yes.  I personally like the mousedown firing my action.  I 
>wonder if the average web user would be aware of the difference from one 
>site/page/button to another.
>
>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:01:08 +0200
>  "Troy III Ajnej" <trojani2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Yes the mousedown event will get fired imediatly when the mousebutton is 
>>pressed and you will not be able to escape from it being executed, while 
>>the click event will get fired only after the press and the release over 
>>the same element has ocurred. That means that for some reason, if you've 
>>mousedowned over some element but you've decided not to finish your click 
>>on that element, you can move away from this click element while holding 
>>mousebutton and release it outside, so the event never gets fired. That's 
>>why tere are mousedown and click event kept it the collection. Because 
>>even if they are very similar they act rather differently.
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