Summary
Event handlers are the interactive triggers in HTML and JavaScript. Whether the script traces a location or history property or launches a function, the World Wide Web would be far less interactive and interesting without the event handlers. They make things happen and give the designer tools to use events in planning and executing a web site design.
The bulk of the event handlers do not now have good cross-browser compatibility when used as properties of JavaScript objects. In future versions of JavaScript, such as JavaScript 2.0, developers and designers fervently hope that all browsers will follow the new standards consistently and will implement better event-handling properties that will launch from a method rather than HTML. However, ...
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