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Re: onmouseout Bug or Feature

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Gene Wirchenko wrote on 26 jun 2012 in comp.lang.javascript:

> On 25 Jun 2012 23:02:47 GMT, "Evertjan."
> <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> wrote:
> 
>>Gene Wirchenko wrote on 25 jun 2012 in comp.lang.javascript:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>>     Due to the alert(), the mouse cursor is no longer on the image so
>>> mouseout technically has occurred.  onmouseout does not fire.  Is this
>>> behaviour deliberate, a bug, or undefined as such?
>>
>>It is correct behavour,meseems.
>>
>>The problem is in your programming.
>>
>>You should not programme an alert() on Ajax error, 
>>when such alert() breaks wanted behavour. 
>>
>>If a warning is necessary, you could display it in a span or div,
>>perhaps a position fixed div mimicking an alert.
> 
>      Experimental code.  Must easier to throw in an alert().  Another
> case of debugging changing program behaviour.

Ok.

It could break you up in time or mouse-position critical applications.

Continuing after a breakpoint usually is not advisable in these cases, try:

alert( 'breakpoint 3, the value of a being: ' + a ); stopMeNow()

where stopMeNow() is not a defined function.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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onmouseout Bug or Feature Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-25 14:57 -0700
  Re: onmouseout Bug or Feature "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-06-25 23:02 +0000
    Re: onmouseout Bug or Feature Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-25 17:11 -0700
      Re: onmouseout Bug or Feature "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-06-26 22:03 +0000
        Re: onmouseout Bug or Feature Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-26 16:36 -0700

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