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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > At present, most SCRIPT tags in use on the Internet already have to hide their > code inside comments to avoid spilling their contents across the screens of > older browsers. This just seems to add an extra layer of detritus to scripts. > While it's workable, it doesn't seem like an elegant way to interoperate with > another key set of web standards. As scripting and markup grow more and more > intertwined (i.e., the document object model becomes a reality), I suspect > this is going to be at least an eyesore if not a roadblock. Actually, I think that the situation is the opposite. The document object model finally allows you to refer to document elements from *outside* your document so that you have *less need* to directly mix scripts and code. Using DOM I can create a client-side program that takes an XML instance as input and returns XML as output. I can't do that with JavaScript as it exists today. The JavaScript "model" is textual replacement (which must, by definition, be "inline"). The DOM model is structural processing (which can be done "remotely"). I expect that a few years from now this convention of putting markup and scripting cheek to cheek will have died out. It is just another face of the logical markup vs. presentational markup war The trend is from inline to external, just as with presentation. Paul Prescod xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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