[Javascript] User Experience: mousedown vs click

[Hakan]

I've never used the onclick event, since it's just a combination of 
mousedown and mouseup on the same element, and absolutely nothing else. 
It can be perfectly simulated by controlling these two events, and you 
never actually need the onclick event.

The onclick event is confusing, since generally people don't seem to 
know if it fires when you press the mouse button or when you release it.

Regards,
H

Troy III Ajnej wrote:
> 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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