I've been really surprised while testing a new site I recently created with Firefox 1.0... It seemed that Firefox was not recognizing the hand value as a valid cursor, but how could this be possible when IE was doing it right? Well, I researched a bit and found in the CSS2 specification that hand is not a valid value for the cursor property!! The right CSS2 property value is pointer... Tested this new value with IE and Firefox and it worked right in both of them.

So, the question now is "Why does IE support a non-standard hand value for the cursor CSS property?" I guess it has, maybe, something to do with mind-compatibility with Microsoft developers that came from VB or similar languages. Don't know, but is annoying, I used to work with that hand value, but I've changed my mind to the standard pointer one.

More info on CSS2 and property values @ http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#propdef-cursor

PD: the most irritating thing is that Visual Studio .NET CSS editor tells me 'pointer' is not a valid value for the 'cursor' property !!!

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