----- Original Message ----- From: "jdmajor" > If he can change it to vbscript, why couldn't he change it to: > <a href="js:foo(bar);">
Good question, but the answer is IE supports two client/server scripting languages by default, JScript (their implementation of the industry standard ECMAScript which began as JavaScript) and their own proprietary one, VBScript. 'javascript' and 'vbscript' are the names that IE recognises for these, so it passes the href to them to handle instead of going looking for a page to display. If you try to use 'js' it won't recognise it as a scripting name, so will simply try to treat "js:foo(bar);" as a URL and end up with a 404 error. However you can install a plugin to get IE to recognise and execute other languages such as TCL or PerlScript, and I guess you could conceivably write your own 'js' language and create and install a plugin for it...? :o) ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
