- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:12:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- cc: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
IE 5.0 seems to do fine on onfocus/onblur. Charles McCN On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Bruce Bailey wrote: Unsolicited advice... [snip] > However, I feel strongly that page developers should (must) get into the > habit of enabling device independent triggers on all suitable scripts in > spite of the problems with the current crop of event-handlers > noted earlier on the IG list. Philosophically, I agree with you, but please keep this in mind: (1) 6.4 and 9.3 are P2, 6.3 (re. NOSCRIPT) is P1. (2) No currently available browsers even support onFocus and onBlur. (3) The formal HTML 4.01 specification does not permit onFocus and onBlur to nearly the same degree that it validates onMouseOver and onMouseOut. Given the above, IMHO, time and effort that one might spend on this issue would be much productive if directed towards advocating for more robust development of NOSCRIPT content. Of course, if one is inspired by a campaign against the "click here" mindset -- and is bored by idea of championing the use of NOSCRIPT -- by all means work on the problem you care about! -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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