24 July 2006
Mouse wheel programming in JavaScript
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: AJAX; Tips .
Web applications are becoming more and more like “normal” desktop applications. Of course, they are more and more functional, but smooth user interface acts the primary role. So we have drag and drop, autocompletition, and much more. Many of those nice features got possible only with help of AJAX.
This page, however, is not about AJAX (or any other buzzword). It is about rather simple user input method — mouse wheel. I believe it would now be difficult to find a mouse without wheel. Vast majority of users are used to the wheel as a control for scrolling in lists, zooming etc. Rather few web applications, however, make use of mouse wheel. This page is to provide you with general information about handling mouse wheel-generated events in JavaScript programming language.
