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>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. I agree with you on presentation, but I'll argue quite heartily that scripting is becoming an integral part of content. >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"). Which _can_ be done remotely - but that isn't to say that remote control is always the best solution. OOP ticked off a lot of people when it first appeared for suggesting that data and code might work better as a unit than as separate parts, and I suspect JavaScript (though it's hardly OO) is going to take knocks for a similar offense. I'm not completely sure where you're coming from declaring the "JavaScript 'model' is textual replacement" - while textual replacement is one part of the JavaScript toolset, it's hardly the only piece. As much as I hate to use them as an example, Microsoft's scriptlets are a strong step in the opposite direction of what you would like to see. Scriptlets combine a small amount of code and some markup to create an interface component that can be added easily to a page. If anything, the trend (in my feeble opinion) is toward further mixing of code and markup, not less. Scriptlets can be quick hacks, or they can be elaborate interface components. As I said before, we'll see what people actually do with the stuff soon enough. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer 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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