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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Problem with FF
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Martin Honnen wrote:

> Mel Smith wrote:
>>      I guess I just don't understand how FF works with 'events', and how
>>      it
>> is different with IE (7 or 9) or Chrome ??
>>
>> <div id="ipassword" >
>> Enter Drawmaster's<br />Password below<br />
>> <input type="password" id="ipwdfld" name="pwdfld"
>>    maxlength="6" size="6" value=""
>>    onkeypress="submitpwd();"/>
>> </div>
> 
> Well inside the onkeypress attribute's event handler code Mozilla
> provides you with an "event" object (passed in as an argument)

This appears to be ubiquitous among DOM-supporting browsers (down to 
Netscape 4.0), but I am not aware of a public standard or draft to specify 
it.  If anything, this feature should become part of the HTML5 Web 
Applications API.


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