Fast clicking on IE has slower response than firefox, chrome and safari. Why? (I'm using jquery)
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Fast clicking on IE has slower response than firefox, chrome and safari. Why? (I'm using jquery)
A:
It is due to the speed of the JavaScript engine inside of the browser. IE is typically the slowest (depending on the version being used).
manyxcxi
2010-05-12 01:18:02
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It's because Internet Explorer interprets two fast clicks in a row as one single-click, followed by one double-click, while the other browsers interpret it as two single-clicks and a double-click.
Try testing this to see how each browser reacts to a double-click.
<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function onclick_test()
{
var console = document.getElementById('console');
console.appendChild(document.createTextNode('onclick'));
console.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
}
function ondblclick_test()
{
var console = document.getElementById('console');
console.appendChild(document.createTextNode('ondblclick'));
console.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span style='border:1px solid blue;' onclick='onclick_test();' ondblclick='ondblclick_test();'>Click me</span>
<div id='console'></div>
</body>
</html>
Josh Townzen
2010-05-12 01:22:35
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I think the problem is that IE apparently doesn't fire click when it fires dblclick unlike other browsers, so some clicks are lost in th ether (because they trigger dblclick). I fixed (hacked) this problem by repeating the same handler code for dblclick as for click if browser is IE ($.browser.msie). It's an hack, not a good solution. If someone knows how to fix this properly please let me know.
Alexandre Gomes
2010-05-12 01:31:16