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Ticket #1462 (closed bug: worksforme)
$(document).mousemove does not work in IE
| Reported by: | fromvega | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.2.2 |
| Component: | event | Version: | 1.1.3 |
| Keywords: | mouse move mousemove | Cc: | |
| Blocking: | Blocked by: |
Description
The following code works fine both in Firefox and in IE7:
document.onmousemove = function(){
alert("Moved!");
};
But using jQuery it just work in Firefox:
$(document).mousemove(function(){
alert("Moved!");
});
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Are there other events that require DOM0 event handling to work cross-browser. Perhaps we could check against an array of these event types and use DOM0 if a match is found. Would we try to avoid clobbering existing DOM0 handlers of the same type?