please tell me why this does not show an alert window
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “
<html xmlns=”
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
[COLOR=Red]<script type=”text/javascript”>
var da=new array();
da[0]=”1890″;
da[1]=”2222″;
da[2]=”3333″;
function getdates(){
alert(“the date is ” + da[1]);
}
</script>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
[COLOR=Red]<input type=”button” value=”hit” onclick=”getdates()” />
</p>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>