| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 13 Mar 2001 at 14:33:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Javascript Does'nt work on my amiga ??? |
Hello Neil
On 13-Mar-01, you wrote:
>> Everything between <H2> and </H2> is an area on the screen, more
>> to the point a peice of text so high and so bold. You can move your
>> mouse over it. If you click the text, you HAVE CLICKED IT. It's clickable.
>
> I know you *can* click on it. but if it's not an obviously clickable
> link, why would a user think to click on it. I don't go round clicking
> every piece of text on every web page, just in case some lame "webmaster"
> has added an onClick handler. If you want someone to use a link, make it
> a link.
What's this about links being the only thing you can click?
It's prudes like you that are holding the web back :P
Besides, clicking on stuff is useful sometimes. I have a clock somewhere
on one of my sites that ticks away using some neat Javascript. Clicking
on the text stops the clock. Or, if you set a cookie earlier, starts it up
from localtime. Okay, so I'm using SPAN, but the same thing applies
since Hn is essentially a subclass of SPAN - with specific formatting and
an implied linefeed.
I refuse to convert it to 3 <input type="text"> gadgets and a "toggle"
switch. This is the year 2001!
As it happens, the real use in stuff like this is onMouseOver or the like,
so if you hover over plain old text you can do something snazzy. onClick
is probably just for completeness.
>> Tough titties, but you wouldn't be visiting Nick's site anyway :O
>
> It wouldn't matter, as he didn't have an onClick handler. He had an
> uncalled function with a name that looked like an object's method :-O
But what he did was a PERFECTLY valid way of attaching a handler to
an object. Or at least I remember it to be..
Thanks
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