I’ve just recently started looking into the details of which events fire when in what browsers when an html page is loaded, and at how to use JavaScript, especially jQuery, to leverage those events to make a page do exactly what I want, when I want.
It seems like knowledge of when and how browsers set off events and how to access them in JavaScript is a pretty big deal, but there isn’t really one, good place to go and learn about it. There are thousands upon thousands of juicy tidbits which contain all the information, many of which are even grouped on certain sites (like this one), but you generally have to know what you’re looking for, which prevents a lot of the “stumble upon” effect when learning about a topic.
So is there a good place to learn about all the intricacies of something like the order of events when a page is loaded, or what exactly browsers do during an AJAX call, or just about how browsers deal with an general JavaScript event?
Haven’t had time to read it myself but looks quite promising:
How Browsers Work