Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/18/06 08:00

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> writing in
news:hc6lg.5463$W65.574@reader1.news.jippii.net:

> Using href="javascript:void(0)" does not conform to any published
> specification, since there is no such spec that defines javascript:
> URLs. Besides, it fails even on some old browsers that do not
> recognize such URLs (or pseudo-URLs), despite supporting JavaScript.
>
>

Yes, and it even fails on some modern browsers, like Opera. AFAIK, Opera
doesn't like href="javascript:anything". Opera is my default browser, and
I'm redoing a site that has tons of links like this - none of 'em work - so
I am replacing them with plain hrefs.

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