[thelist] javascript:// :is it necessary?

[The Optimizer]

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