- From: Dave Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:07:07 -0700
Safari in the latest Tiger update supports WinIE's mouse wheel
system. We also have a wheelDeltaX and wheelDeltaY so that
horizontal wheeling can be supported. I had planned to propose this
at some point but hadn't gotten around to it yet.
dave
On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
> Chris Griego wrote:
>
>> Currently the only way to capture and use the mouse wheel on the web
>> is within the Macromedia Flash v7 plugin which added event handling
>> for the mouse wheel.
>>
>
> That's incorrect. Both IE (since 5.5?) and Mozilla supports this.
> Unfortunately they do it in different ways.
>
> IE:
>
> element.attachEvent("onmousewheel", function () {
> document.title = window.event.wheelDelta;
> });
>
> Mozilla:
>
> element.addEventListener("DOMMouseScroll", function (e) {
> document.title = e.detail;
> }, true);
>
> The values here are bit different.
>
> In Mozilla, if you have set Mozilla to scroll a certain number of
> rows you get the number of steps here. If you have it set to scroll
> one page at a time you get large values and I'm not sure if these
> represents the number of rows in some way.
>
> In IE it returns multiples of 120 but I guess it really represent 3
> rows * 40 twips/row and that changing this in some control panel
> applet or in the registry might give you other alternative results.
>
> The values in IE is negative when Mozilla is positive and the other
> way around.
>
> Here is a pretty simple way to unify these to some extent:
>
> function getWheelDelta(e) {
> if (window.event) { // IE
> return e.wheelDelta / 40;
> } else {
> // In case the user has "one screen at a time" we get a
> // very big value
> var v = e.detail || 0;
> if (v > 1000) {
> v = 3;
> } else if (v < -1000) {
> v = -3;
> }
> return - v;
> }
> }
>
> erik
>
Received on Monday, 20 June 2005 15:07:07 UTC