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Window properties – The status property

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Oct 10.2007

We use the status property to inform visitors about the site they’ll seeif they click on a link. For example, if i have a link to a very graphics-intensive site, it would be a good idea to put a warning with the words “Warning, this site has a lot of graphics” And, this could appear in the status bar when the visitor mouses over the link. I would set it up as:
<a href=”http://…/” onMouseOver=”window.status=’Warning, this site has a lot of graphics’; return true;”>Animation something</a>

My question is :
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Why is it return false in the case of onClick and return true in the case of onMouseOver ?

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@KorOct 10.2007 — [B]return[/B] stops the HTML action and waits for a Boolean, if any. In case of onclick in a link, [B]return false[/B] will prevent the HTML action, thus will stop the navigation to another address. The same acts [B]return false[/B] in case of [B]onsubmit[/B] event, will stop the submit process..

Why is otherwise in case of onmouseover applied upon window.status? Like one of my friends said once: "This is one of those things that you don't need to know exactly what it does; just put it in there."?
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