Defining a Timer's Action
In the preceding section, we defined the syntax for the <timer> tag that sets the length of the timer. When you define the action that a timer will initiate, there are two different syntactical expressions that you may use.
In the preceding examples in this chapter, we have used the ontimer attribute in the <card> tag to establish an action the timer will execute. Although this is the simplest way to code a timer element, what we've really shown is a shorthand version of the <onevent> tag discussed in Chapter 4. The action initiated by a timer is an intrinsic event, and as such can be coded with the <onevent> tag.
▸ For more about intrinsic events in general, and the <onevent> tag in particular, see Chapter 4's section ...
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