chapter11.md

Chapter 11 Thoughts

Feature simulation - why rebuild the feature as a fallback, wouldn’t that take up a lot of dev time and be a little error prone?

Object detection seems like the best way to handle browser inconsistencies - if the object has this property, use it

function bindEvent(elem, type, handle) {
  if (elem.addEventListener) {
    elem.addEventListener(type, handle, false);
  } else if (elem.attachEvent) {
    elem.attachEvent(‘on’ + type, handle);
  }
}

For event handler bindings - is it still not possible to know if a bound event has been fired? Mouseover is hard to use in reusable code, for example, since we need to bind the listener and then wait for a user interaction

btw I literally had a dream about the topics in chapter 12, where I realized that, when it comes to events, you can model the DOM as a somewhat deranged equivalent to the method lookup chain in Ruby (or indeed JavaScript), because of the way they bubble up the DOM, looking for an appropriate handler.