onmouseover routines (fwd)

[Paul Egli <pegli@best.com>]

please be certain your address for this list
is "javascript@obscure.org" as obscure.com is
a separate domain.

thank you.

paul egli

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:51:28 -0500
From: Mark Richards <webmaster@deerfield.com>
To: javascript@obscure.com
Subject: onmouseover routines


I've noticed that if I write a simple "mouseover" routine like this :

<a href="threetop.htm"onmouseover="window.status='Click here to learn more
about the Threetops course';return true">

...  it doesn't always take effect on the first load. For example, if I load
the document directly into Netscape 2.0 (from my hard disk), then the
"onmouseover" links do not work. If, however, I simply hit the "back" button
and then go "forward" again, I get the desired effect.
This happens not only with the "onmouseover" event handler, but with others
as well.

I realize I'm probably missing something obvious.... could someone please
clue me in? Thanks.



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Mark Richards
Deerfield Communications Company
webmaster@deerfield.com
http://www.deerfield.com