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Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click

From Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click
Date 2013-04-25 09:37 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
...
> (document.getElementById() is not safe with all versions of IE/MSHTML, 
> though.  If you really want to be backwards-compatible [before IE 5.5, 
> presumably], you need a DOM wrapper for that.)

As IE 5.50 is compatible even with
Windows 95, I puzzle why anybody would want
such backwards compatibility.

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Regards,
Martin Leese
E-mail: please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID
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Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Mason Barge <masonbarge@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 09:57 -0400
  Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-24 11:02 +0200
    Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Mason Barge <masonbarge@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 17:44 -0400
      Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-25 01:31 +0200
        Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-04-25 09:37 -0600
        Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Mason Barge <masonbarge@gmail.com> - 2013-04-25 12:44 -0400
          Re: Problem with IE, either with "window.event" or failure to prevent default return on click Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-26 11:25 +0200

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