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    copied!<p>I'm currently working on a jQuery plugin that tracks a visitors mouse behavior. Movements, clicks, scrolling and resizing are all recorded and sent, via Ajax, to a location where this data is parsed and stored.</p> <p>Originally, the data is sent to a script when the user leaves the page. By 'leaves' I'm referring to refreshing, going back and forth though history, closing the window/tab and going to a different address.</p> <p>The solution works in all browsers EXCEPT for Opera. I'm using jQuery's 'unload' event which isn't supported by Opera at all. Neither is onbeforeunload or onunload.</p> <p>The question is, how do I implement this kind of functionality for Opera browsers?</p> <p>One solution I had was to make special use of a 'polling' feature I created. This feature allows you to specify an interval which pushes the content to the server every 'x' seconds. Setting this to 1 second specifically for Opera browsers would probably solve this issue, but it's an awful amount of overhead and the requests aren't always completed in sequence, etc ...</p> <p>Any suggestions or am I only stuck with the above option?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p><em>I suppose I could just link you guys to the plugin source. <a href="http://www.thedrunkenepic.com/junk/jquery.mousalytics.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.thedrunkenepic.com/junk/jquery.mousalytics.js</a></em></p> <p>Regarding the code linked above, adding:</p> <pre><code>if(window.opera) { options.interval = 1; } </code></pre> <p>On line 89 works great. My only concern is overhead, so I'm still looking for a more elegant solution.</p>
 

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