Question

Why won’t this work in Safari?

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function changeUrl(url) {
  window.location.href='http://google.com';
  return false;
}
</script>

<form action="#" onsubmit="changeUrl(this)" />
  <input type="Submit" value="Go" />
</form>

Answer 1

Safari appears to dislike having the return false occur in the function call. If you move it into your onsubmit as onsubmit=”openPop(this.action);return false;” then Safari will work without issue.

Edit: To improve the answer, onsubmit itself needs to return false, so openPop returning false is not enough. You could just have it do onsubmit=”return openPop(this.action);” though.