Subject: RE: Inline scripting From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:07:29 -0500 |
> Consider Chris Maden's simple example. I have a document with 300 > javascript scripts in it. I delete the first one in a WYSIWYG editor. Now > I scroll to the bottom. The editing tool must run every one of those 300 > scripts because any of them could affect something that changes the stuff > at the bottom. Furthermore, if any of them has a bug that causes an > infinite loop, I can't even display the document. Right. THese kinds of issues are ones of architecture. Even though DHTML can achieve some really neat effects, I think that most people would agree that self-modifying code is hardly a good things in most cases. One of the most contentious issues in the DOM, namely "liveness", was brought to the fore primarily because DHTML *forces* you to deal with it. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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