What's the purpose (if any) of “[removed]” in event handler tags?

Question

I\'ve been making a concerted effort to improve my javascript skills lately by reading as much javascript code as I can. In doing this I\'ve sometimes seen the javascr

Answer 1

It should only be used in the href tag.

That's ridiculous.

The accepted way is this:

Blah

But to answer the OP, there is generally no reason to use javascript: anymore. In fact, you should attach the javascript event from your script, and not inline in the markup. But, that's a purist thing I think :-D