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jQuery Plugin Fling Lets You Set Up Flex-like Event Listeners
I was checking Twitter on my iPod Touch when I cam across a tweet from the jQuery Twitter account about a plugin called Fling.
The purpose of Fling is to make it easier to manage multiple triggers and cascading events. Fling lets you create a named event, then subscribe multiple functions to that event. When the named event is published, those subscribed events then fire in sequence.
It reminded me of how Flex allows you to set up multiple event listeners and use event bubbling to trigger multiple events based off of a single action.
Thus, while doing the job, not seem to work too well, I do not think that a user will be willing to wait to be allowed to leave the subject of the child.
But I would say try it for yourself and see if perhaps there is some trick to get it to work well: it is possible to see if adding borders around the list items will help provide a visual cue that a subject must be drawn to get it to drop.
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