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 More options Oct 20 1999, 3:00 am
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From: Jukka.Korp...@hut.fi
Date: 1999/10/20
Subject: Re: why javascript:
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On 19 Oct 1999 16:09:07 -0700, Lee <boy...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>In the context of:
> <a href="javascript:newpage()">
>where HTML syntax calls for an URL (or URI), it's a protocol
>similar to "http:" or "mailto:".

Actually, a pseudo-protocol. It's not officially defined and
registered as a URL scheme, see
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html

The practical side of the matter is that a page using that pseudo-URL
in links fails miserably when JavaScript is disabled, and even on some
JavaScript-enabled browsers which don't support that hack.

So it's best to use other approaches, such as a valid URL in HREF,
with JavaScript code associated with ONCLICK and other event
attributes. For an example, see the discussion at
http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/forms/javascript.html#window

See also
http://www.irt.org/articles/js169/index.htm#4.12
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