- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 05:13:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Stewart Brodie wrote: > Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote: > > Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > > Consider the following testcase: > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE html> > > > <a href="http://www.example.com" onclick="return 0">Click me</a> > > > > > > Should clicking the link load www.example.com? > > > > Yes. You should explicitly return "false" to cancel an event. > > I've had to deal with customer fault reports saying that "return 0" > should cancel the event, so have to allow for numbers here too. I'm > assuming that means that one or more of the major desktop browsers > permits this. In my testing, IE doesn't do that; they require 'false' exactly. Without more support for this, I'd be reluctant to change it. Could you elaborate? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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