Strange mouse over effect on almere.nl
When I just visited a page on the site of my home town, I came across a strange and annoying mouse over bug. When crossing links they change background color and remain dark blue, which makes it kind of hard to read the text.
I expected some Internet Explorer only code and had a look at the messy source code of the page. What I found was even better and something I have not seen before.
<td height=’14′
onMouseOver=this.bgColor=’#F2E8E7′
onMouseOver=this.style.cursor=’hand’
onMouseOut=this.bgColor=’transparent’>
<a xhref=’smartsite.dws?id=3911′ class=’sitemap’>
Afvalbeleid</a></td>
How is a web-browser supposed to know what to do? Actually in the content part of the page you will hardly see any double-quotes enclosing HTML tag attributes. I guess their content management system, which is Smartsite from a Dutch company called Seneca Web Development can’t handle it. Needles to say, that you can achieve the same mouse over effect with a few lines of CSS code without any java-script. The w3c html validator reports in total 2019 errors just for this page.
