Rails spinoffs - Jun 2006 - using observers to detect the difference betwn dbl and single click

Does anyone have a leads or ideas how one could us the Observers to detect
and act on single vs double clicks on objects/links?


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Samuel DeVore wrote:
> Does anyone have a leads or ideas how one could us the Observers to 
> detect and act on single vs double clicks on objects/links?
I have not tested this but shouldn''t this work:

Event.observe(my_element, ''dblClick'', function(event) {
	// ...handle event...
});

Just a word of usability warning though. The web is primarily one-click 
so doing double-click will go against people''s expectations. Also many 
people double-click on web pages always because that is what they do on 
their desktop. So they may double-click not realizing that an app will 
carry out a different action than if the item was single-clicked.

Eric