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Len asks: > I'm sort of fond of inner functions, at least, they > don't seem to be making my life harder as an ASP > relational hacker. > > Why object to them? Just curious. In DHTML, my general complaint was that developers used these features to make broad changes without thinking about the object model they were manipulating. Most of the folks I was working with knew HTML better than scripting, and used the innerHTML and outerHTML functions to slap in new HTML rather than make smaller and often more useful changes - or use CSS and CSS properties, which usually was a lot more sensible. Rebuilding a menu system that's been written that way is really painful; I only did that once, but won't forget it. In the hands of people who do know what they're doing, it's not nearly as much of a nuisance, but I rarely see feature docs that explain all that, including those for the innerXML function [1]. Right now I'm considering how to do something similar with MOE, as I'm adding a parser, and I think I may keep the parsing and replacement stages separate. Less productive for some, but seems wiser to me. [1] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/ html/frlrfsystemxmlxmlnodeclassinnerxmltopic.asp (I hope there are more and better docs, since this doesn't even make clear what happens if the parser chokes on what it's fed.) ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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