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

I am no authority in JavaScript, and perhaps more of a dunce than the asker, but AFAIK, the difference is that the javascript: prefix is preferred/required in URI-contexts, where the argument may be as well a traditional HTTP URL as a JavaScript trigger.

So, my intuitive answer would be that, since onChange expects JavaScript, the javascript: prefix is redundant (if not downright erroneous). You can, however, write javascript:myFunction(this) in your address bar, and that function is run. Without the javascript:, your browser would try to interpret myFunction(this) as a URL and tries to fetch the DNS info, browse to that server, etc...