Re: [webcomponents] Considering declarative event handlers

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Erik Arvidsson <arv@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue Feb 07 11:41:24 GMT-800 2012, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> The pros are:
>> * It's declarative and intuitively logical
>
>
> I think this is a cons. Now you need both markup and code where you only had
> code before.
>
> This also does not scale very well and it brings us down the XBL/HTC path:
>
> <script event="click">
> ...
> </script>
> <script event="mouseover">
> ...
> </script>
> <script event="mouseout">
> ...
> </script>
> <script event="mousedown">
> ...
> </script>
> <script event="mouseup">
> ...
> </script>
> <script event="mousemove">
> ...
> </script>
>
> All these interleaving code-markup  blocks makes the code harder to read and
> maintain.

That's a good point.

:DG<

>

Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:30:19 UTC