6.3. How Mouse Gestures Work
Mouse gestures are button clicks, mouse movements, and scroll wheel rolls. Mozilla supports them all. Mozilla also supports graphic tablets and other devices that pretend to be mice.
Mouse gestures can be simple or complex. Just as keystrokes can be put together into a search word with the Find As You Type feature, so too can mouse clicks and movements be put together into a larger action that has its own special meaning. Such a larger action is a true mouse gesture. A simple click by itself is a trivial gesture. Nontrivial examples of gestures include drag-and-drop and content selection.
Trivial gestures are handled in Mozilla using DOM 3 Events. These events are the simplest (atomic) operations out of which larger ...
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