When should I observe Javascript events on window vs. document vs. document.body?
I'm using prototype.js for my web app, and I have everything running on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. I am now working on IE8 compatibility. As I've been debugging in IE, I've noticed that there are Javascript events for which I have previously set an observer on the window, e.g. Event.observe(window, eventType, function () {...}); (where eventType might be "dom:loaded" , "keypress" , etc.) and it works just fine in Chrome/Safari/Firefox. However, in IE the observer never fires. In at least some cases I could get this to work on IE by instead placing the observer on something other than window