John Smith <us**@example.net> wrote:
In the code snippet below, I tried to allow the user to choose a page
to view by selecting an item from a dropdown list.
That's a wrong approach, and using frames makes it even more wrong.
See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/navmenu.html
I could make it
work on Mozilla and related browsers, but I couldn't make it work on
Internet Explorer. It *seems* that on IE, when the user highlights an
item on a dropdown list and then let go of the mouse button, no
onmouseup event is generated.
That's quite possible. Support to event attributes depends inherently on
the browser (and its settings). At one extreme, all event attributes are
ignored; at the other, more rare, extreme, all event attributes are
supported for all elements as specified in HTML specifications (and
possibly more) - though this is vaguely defined (the specifications don't
specify very exactly what triggers each event).
Out of curiosity, I created a page for testing event attributes:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/events.html
And it seems that on IE 6, _no_ event attributes have any effect in
<option> elements. When you select an item from a <select> list, some
events are triggered for the <select> element, not for the <option>
selected.
P.S. You had set followups to alt.html.critique too. That was very
unfriendly - people there would see followups coming out of thin air,
without having seen the original message. Besides, the good old rule is
to post to _one_ group after selecting carefully the _right_ group.
This, together with your forged From line, suggests that you need to
study the basics of Usenet netiquette.
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