Re: OT: Web Standards

To: esper@sherohman.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: OT: Web Standards
From: Daniel Barclay <dsb@smart.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:29:36 -0500
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20020219122916.A15223@sherohman.org> (message from Dave Sherohman on Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:29:16 -0600)
References: <[🔎] 3C7290B9.9000601@mail.acu.edu> <[🔎] 20020219122916.A15223@sherohman.org>

> From: Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>

> ....  This leads to such monstrosities as ...
> sites that abandon HREF tags in favor of
> javascript event handlers that are functionally identical, aside from
> breaking if javascript is disabled.  ...

Actually, they're not even functionally identical.  You can't (always):
- see the resolved URL in the browser status bar
- right-click to get a pop-up menu and save a bookmark, copy the URL to
  the clipboard, etc.  (IE, NS 4, NS 6)
- middle-click to open in a new window (NS 4 on Linux)



Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net

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References:
- OT: Web Standards
  - From: Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>
- Re: OT: Web Standards
  - From: Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>

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