Re: [Dynapi-Help] events.js

[Scott A. L. <sc...@sc...>]

Well, for one, I think the use of "javascript:" as a protocol is
deprecated, but I'm not sure.

Second, using "javascript:" has unintended side effects. For example, it
will freeze animated GIFs.

If someone clicks the link while a script is being loaded, the browser
will abort loading the script.

I've also noticed that "javascript:" links take longer to execute.  The
browser sometimes hangs for several seconds.

There's a few more problems I saw posted on another DHTML list, but I
can't find them.  The general agreement was that using onclick is safer.

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Bill Wesley wrote:
> 
> Why would you use this syntax, with href="#":
> 
>         <a href="#" onclick="return false;" onfocus="document...layer.focus();">
>                 <div id="layer" ...>
>         </a>
> 
> Rather than with href="javascript:void(null)":
> 
>         <a href="javascript:void(null)" onclick="return false;"
> onfocus="document...layer.focus();">
>                 <div id="layer" ...>
>         </a>
> 
> ?
>