Working with promises and deferred

http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2012-1/Deferred_and_promise_in_jQuery.html

by protasovams

HTML

<div id="result"></div>

JavaScript

$('#result').html('waiting...');

var promise = wait();
promise.done(result);


function result() {
    $('#result').html('done');
}

function wait() {
    var deferred = $.Deferred();
    
    setTimeout(function() {
        deferred.resolve();
    }, 2000);

    return deferred.promise();
}