Appendix F. Further Reading
The illustration in Figure 5-1 is adapted from Peter Beverloo’s blog: http://peter.sh/experiments/asynchronous-and-deferred-javascript-execution-explained/.
Christian Heilmann wrote an in-depth introduction to JavaScript events for Smashing Magazine: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/17/javascript-events-responding-user/. The PointerEvents library is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/toolkitchen/PointerEvents/.
The jQuery website, http://jquery.com/, has instructions for getting started, while the excellent documentation is at http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page. Statistics about jQuery usage are from the blog post “jQuery Now Runs on Every Second Website” at http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/jquery_now_runs_on_every_second_website/ ...
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