[thelist] javascript:// :is it necessary?
The Optimizer
chrism at puffofsmoke.net
Thu Jun 28 12:02:15 CDT 2001
James
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> Well, it is debatable whether onmouseover is JavaScript. As I wrote
Yes, sorry. There was a bit more of my personal opinion in there than I
should have included for the sake of this discussion ;)
> earlier, traditionally Netscape said, "yes", and Microsoft said, "no". W3C
> and ECMA standards say, "no", as well -- as does Netscape now with the
> release of its latest browser. The mouseover event itself is part of the
> document object model, and thus accessible to any client-side scripting
> language.
Agreed.
> And, yes, you can execute a client-side VBScript using
> onmouseover. But
> you are right that this should not be confused with server-side ASP.
Regards
Chris Marsh
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