- From: Nir Dagan <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 02:41:11 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I don't think that recommending against using onClick and similar attributes is that good. The reason being that it may encourage people to do the wrong thing. For example one can write a gracefully transforming JavaScript thing with: <A href="some-url" onClick="some-script">some text</A> Now if we disallow using onClick he may write <A href="some-script">some text</A> that (depending on the script) may work just as before with Javascript on. But doesn't work otherwise. (The second construct is invalid as some-script will not be a valid URL but validators don't report errors in CDATA attribue values.) Another problem with excluding all these atributes, is that they constitute all the "intristic-event" generic attributes, so it would be very difficult to use scripts to the extent that script fans will forget about the WAI. I think we should find the analogies between mouse events and keyboard and speach and make a note of that in User-Agent guidelines. One should remember that the names of the attributes are platform specific due to the fact that most were introduced as vendor extentions, but some of them have clear analogies: onClick and the sugested onActivate, for example. Regards, Nir Dagan Assistant Professor of Economics Universidad Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) website: http://www.nirdagan.com email: nir.dagan@econ.upf.es "There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." -- A. Einstein
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