Re: [WSG] onClick question

[Patrick H. Lauke]

Although well meant, the advice to add onkeypress is misguided. This has 
been previously discussed, but: onclick is - despite its name - not 
device dependent (in the same way that, say, onmouseover is). onclick is 
really a misnomer for "onactivation". all modern browsers (if i remember 
correctly, any version 4+ browser) triggers onclick also when hitting 
the enter key.
the problem with adding onkeypress is that, on Mozilla/Firefox, even a 
"tab" triggers an onkeypress event. Now, if you imagine a user tabbing 
his/her way through a page of links, and one of them has an onkeypress, 
they'll activate it as they're simply moving from one link to the 
next...not good (particularly if the onkeypress is linked to some 
javascript that changes the current page location, for instance).

Moral of the story: only use onclick, and don't pair it up with onkeypress.
Patrick
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