Re: Netscape 2.0 bug w. onMouseOver?

["Konrad Kim" <KRad@spacelab.net>]

Yeah I saw this too. Seems netscape was in rush to implement mouseover on
the Mac side.
the Status bar only gets msgs sometimes but upon runnning mouseover on
sofwindoze it runs
flawlessly every time.

>>I've got a CGI that generates HTML. Among other things,
>>it adds more informative information to the HREF links
>>via JavaScript's mouseover tags:
>
>><A HREF="index.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Back to
>>home page'; return true">
>
>>However, I notice that this information doesn't register
>>when the page is first drawn. When I move the move over
>>links, the status area displays the URL. If I resize the
>>window, the HTML gets redrawn, and now the correct infor-
>>mation gets displayed. Has anyone run into this? Do I need
>>to include something explicit (other than the onMouseOver
>>code) in the HTML to get Netscape to recognize it the
>>first time around?
>
>>I'm using Netscape 2.0 on a Mac.
>
>>Thanks.
>
>>Ramon
>
>Although I don't have a solution, I just want to add that this is also
>happening to me. I have a button,
>that is "connected" to an onClick, but the specified onClick action
>doesn't occur when the page is first
>loaded, but does work if I just resize the screen.
>
>I'm also using Netscape 2.0 on a Mac. (Hmmmmmm.........)
>
>Jamie
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