Miscellaneous Changes
There have also been a few miscellaneous changes in Navigator 3.0:
- Hypertext links created by
<AREA>tags within client-side image maps create Link objects just like<A>tags do. These objects become part of thelinks[]array of the Document object. - Link objects support a new
onMouseOut()event handler, triggered when the mouse passes out of the link's "hot spot" or trigger area. - The Document object has a new
URLproperty which is the preferred name for what was theDocument.locationproperty. Thelocationproperty is deprecated because it is too easily confused with thelocationproperty of the Window object. - New Plugin and MimeType objects represent installed Navigator plug-ins and MIME type data formats that are supported by the browser. These objects appear in the
plugins[]andmimeTypes[]arrays of the Navigator object, and allow JavaScript programs to determine whether a particular client supports required plug-ins or data formats. Furtherore, theplugins.refresh()method of the Navigator object causes the browser to check for newly installed plug-ins and optionally reload affected web pages. - The
javaEnabled()method of the Navigator object specifies whether Java is supported and enabled on the current platform.