Olin wrote regarding 'Re: [EE] Key activate link in HTML?' on Sat, Mar 11 at 16:35:
> I thought it was a Sun thing, and Microsoft had something similar
> but deliberately different called Jscript(?).  Is there a definative
> reference on Javascript somewhere, like the definative HTML reference at
> www.w3.org?

Sun has a languace called Java.  The language usually called
"JavaScript" is unrelated except that they're both object-oriented and
use dots to separate objects from attributes.  The"standard" is the
Ecma standard, because JavaScript if Netscape's implementation of
EcmaScript.  Microsoft's "ecmascript" implamentation is called
JScript, because it's similar to but different from JavaScript.  

The EcmaScript standard is maintained somewhere at netscape.com, IIRC,
but lacking a decent graphical web browser at the moment I'll just
refer you to Google.  The basics can be obtained from most anywhere,
but since the implementations vary based on the browser, you'll want
to refer to the browser-specific docs (at msdn.microsoft.com and
netscape.com/mozilla.org, at least) to do anything complicated.

That said, all you really need is an action handler for the link and a
way to change the current document location when someone presses a
hotkey.  With some browsers, you can attache a keyboard event handler
to the body tag and implement your own hotkey navigation - and that
may actually work better than the accesskey specification which almost
no one actually supports. :)

--Danny
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