[Javascript] Anotherbeginner's question

[John Warner]

I think I should have explained better, in the case of this application,
I know all users I care about will have Javascript and Cookies enabled.
In a manner of speaking I can force this issue. Thanks for the help.
What's being aimed for is if someone from Accounting clicks the link, we
want to send them to the link, but designed for the bean counters, same
with HR etc. I know who they are based on IP due to the way IPs are
doled out on the network, each department's DHCP server has a range of
addresses (10.x.x.x) it can dole out. The decision is pretty easy, No
concern about someone viewing source or trying to spoof us, if someone
in HR gets to the accounting page, no one cares, just they will want to
get to the right page eventually and the idea here is to make it easy
for them. It is a sort of departmental bulletin board but not part of
Exchange/Outlook meetings. Replace the old corkboard by the water
fountain on each floor so to speak.

John Warner


> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu 
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:11 AM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Anotherbeginner's question
> 
> 
> I suggest that you DO use <a> tags, with their href set to 
> the default location.  Then you still 
> have functional links without javascript (yeah, I know.. who 
> uses a browser without javascript) 
>  Another benefit is that you can style your links using CSS  
> (a {style}  a:hover {cursor: 
> pointer;})
> 
> Rather than using onmouseover/out, you could reassign the 
> href(s) once the document is loaded - 
> after all, the user is not likely to change their IP address 
> while moving around your page.
> 
> If this change in approach is going to upset your "regular 
> JavaScript guy" then you should 
> probably stick with the approved plan.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:39:57 -0500
>   "John Warner" <john at jwarner.com> 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). 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?
> > 
> > Thanks and again sorry for such a basic question, brace yourselves 
> > this week I may be back with even stupider ones.
> > 
> > John Warner
> > 
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