[Javascript] Anotherbeginner's question

[John Warner]

I prefer to use the client whenever I can just because he has more
processing power then the server does, what I mean is 10 people on the
server mean the sever is 10X busier where as the client is just the one
guy...

Thanks for the rest of the post, hadn't thought this was a Styles issue,
I honestly thought it was client side scripting to make the cursor
change.

John Warner


> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu 
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu] On Behalf Of David Dorward
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:02 AM
> To: '[JavaScript List]'
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Anotherbeginner's question
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:39:57AM -0500, John Warner wrote:
> > An issue has come up today and the regular JavaScript guy 
> is out this 
> > week. I hope this basic question does offend. I have a menu 
> that leads 
> > to different pages, but don't want to use normal <a> tags for the 
> > links. The reason is we need to make a decision about where we send 
> > the client based on his choice and what we know about him 
> (his IP is 
> > part of the decision).
> 
> Why not link to a server side script and make the decision 
> there? It is rather more reliable.
> 
> > My question is, how on a onMouseOver event do I (IE 6 is 
> the target - 
> > intranet)  change the mouse cursor to the little hand figure like 
> > occurs when you point at a normal <a> in IE and of course back 
> > onMouseOut?
> 
> Not with JavaScript. You write a style sheet that applies
> 
>    cursor: pointer;
> 
> to the element you are attaching the script to. If you need 
> to support legacy Internet Explorer then you can use:
> 
>    cursor: hand; /* Non-standard for IE 4/5 */
>    cursor: pointer;
> 
> Of course this does have the disadvantage that if you do 
> depend on JavaScript for the effect then you are still 
> inviting all the people who don't have it enabled to click.
> 
> In this case, you can set the property using JavaScript. e.g.
> 
>    onmouseover="this.className = 'fakeLink';"
> 
> -- 
> David Dorward                                      
http://dorward.me.uk

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