In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus W wrote:
> S�ren Kuklau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 
> [onmousewheel]
>> What can I say, the news site is very MS-friendly and thus obviously 
>> likes this feature. Crap :-/
> 
> This is not crap. This will make it possible to use the wheel to scroll in 
> DHTML scrollers, which is a quite useful feature...

...for building even more ridiculously specific web pages.  "This page 
best viewed in IE 6--with a wheelmouse!"  The whole process of slapping in 
ad hoc event handlers without regard to a device-independent framework (as 
with the slew of HTML4 attributes "onclick", "onmouseover", &etc.) is 
rather ridiculous, and will no doubt come back to bite us in the future.

Incidentally, this isn't new to the service pack; it shipped with IE6, 
according to MSDN.

-- 
Chris Hoess

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