On 16-Sep-00, Ian Greenway wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
>> >> The behaviour comes from exploiting the ability to change the
>> >> cursor. That ability resides at the OS level and M$ based browsers
>> >> all handle
>> > Yes, but what I want to know is whether that "exploiting" is a
>> > documented feature. I expect it isn't. Just because all M$ broswers
>> > handle it does not make it either standard or documented - there
>> > are
>> Changing a cursor in Windows is documented, including how to create
>> custom cursors.
>> How to do the same thing in AmigaOs is also documented
>
> Heh, no, we're at cross-purposes here. :) I'm not referring to the
> program changing the pointer using documented OS routines, I'm talking
> about whether the fact that the pointer does or does not change when
> over an OnClick link is a documented behavioural pattern of HTML or
> JS. ie: Will all browsers (not) change the pointer under these
> circumstances.
>
It is documented in JS that one of many possible actions that can be
programmed to occur at an ON_Mouseover is to change the mousepointer.
It never occurs unless the JS programmer commands it. Wether all
browsers do this is a matter of JS implementation.
> It's all getting a bit OT now anyway...
>
>> > The point made by the originator of the thread was to ask why it
>> > seems people code their sites to be unneccessarily complicated,
>> > risking incompatibilty, without apparent reason.
>> That's because a lot of it is simply due to the programmer amusing
>> h(im|er)self at being clever.
>
> Precisely, but is it "clever" to code incompatible or broken code?
But if you say "the standard is MSIE only, then the code is not
incompatible nor broken. Bill gates wants you to think that way, and MS
HTML tools behave as such and MS training materials teach this.
--
Bob Q
Rocket Scientist during the day,
Amiga Afficionado all night.
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