- From: Andreas Maebert <andreas.maebert@triplex.de>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:54:31 +0200
- To: "Brian Fletcher" <bf001b4869@blueyonder.co.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Hallo Brian, Thursday, September 20, 2001, 2:58:22 AM, you wrote: > I recently converted a page to xhtml, I inserted the xhtml transitional DTD, > sent it to the validator and it failed, Why? because I had a javascript > event handler ( onLoad) in the body tag. > Now I asked around and was told that it is because xhtml is case sensitive > the onLoad event handler should be onload, i.e. lowercase l. > I argued this isn't correct because the event handler is a javascript event > handler, and it should be formatted with the uppercase L because js is case > sensitive as well. > So we now got the HTML coders who say the tag is theirs and should be their > way, and the scripters who say the opposite. No, there is no conflict. The onload-Attribute is part of (X)HTML. This attribute just has the special meaning that its _value_ can be a javascript-expression. So the way you are writing this attribute is entirely out of the scope of javascript. BTW, the onload-handler in Javascript is lower case, too, but this is off topic here. -- Andreas Mäbert Entwicklung & Programmierung triplex - agentur für neue medien GmbH Herzog-Heinrich-Str. 11-13 80336 München
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