The document discusses jQuery deferred and promise objects. It provides examples of using deferred objects to manage asynchronous operations and callbacks. Key points covered include:
- Deferred objects allow registering multiple callbacks and calling callback queues while propagating the state of asynchronous functions.
- Deferred objects have three states: pending, resolved, rejected. Their state cannot be changed once set.
- The .then(), .done(), .fail(), and .progress() methods allow adding callback functions to deferred objects.
- Promise objects are returned from deferred objects and are read-only versions used to observe deferred state without modifying it.
- jQuery.when() can execute callback functions when one or more deferred/promise objects are resolved.