title: Old fashioned html onclick return false doesn't work in IE when jQuery script is included
body: <p>Ok, so I'm quite new to jQuery, but found this bizzare problem just now,</p>
  <p>If we ignore jQuery for a second and consider this scenario, if I have two links like below both with an <code>href</code> and both with and <code>onclick</code> event. The first link will not follow the <code>href</code> because the <code>onclick</code> returns false, and the second link will because the <code>onclick</code> returns true.</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;a href=&quot;/page.html&quot; onclick=&quot;return false;&quot;&gt;Dont follow&lt;/a&gt;
  
  &lt;a href=&quot;/page.html&quot; onclick=&quot;return true;&quot;&gt;Follow&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>This works just hunky dory in every browser as it should, the thing is, as soon as I include the jQuery script on the page this stops working in all versions of IE which then always follows the <code>href</code> whether the <code>onclick</code> returns false or not. (it continues to work fine in other browsers)</p>
  <p>Now if I add an event using jQuery and call <code>.preventDefault()</code> on the event object instead of doing it the old fashioned way this behaves correctly, and you may say, well just do that then? But I have a site with thousands of lines of code and I am adding jQuery support, I don't want to run the risk that I might miss an already defined html <code>onclick=&quot;&quot;</code> and break the web site.</p>
  <p>I cant see why jQuery should prevent perfectly normal JavaScript concepts from working, so is this a jQuery bug or am I missing something?</p>