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2. In this example we used the delegate() method, why?
Summary
a. Because the delegate() method executes faster than the bind() or
live() methods
b. Because the delegate() method must be used when binding to custom
events
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c. Because the element we need to bind to doesn't exist when the handler for
it is added, and therefore the delegate() or live() methods are our only
options, with delegate() being the more efficient
d. Because we don't need to use the event object
In this chapter, the second of our heavily example-based as opposed to theory-based
chapters, we looked at some more common animations that are increasingly found on the
Web. Specifically we looked at the following types of animations:
A proximity driven image scroller where the images scrolled in a certain direction,
and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer
Background-position animations, in which we created a continuous header
animation manually with just a few lines of code
A text marquee, where a series of headlines were grabbed from a live Internet feed
and displayed in a scrolling marquee-style banner
In the next chapter, we'll move to look at some of the new pure CSS animations that have
been introduced with CSS3, and how jQuery can be used to enhance them and generally
make working with them easier.