- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:32:56 +0100
Didier PH Martin wrote: > Having now done several rich internet applications I discovered that > form the practical point of view something like the CSS behavior as > proposed by Microsoft can help develop and implement most of the > requirements specified in your document about web applications. Here are > the benefits: i believe it is already the intention of this group to implement the intended extensions using behavioral technology on a microsoft platform. there are some implementation issues with dhtml behaviors. particularly: * path problems URLs of behaviors are *always* relative to the containing (x)html page not the CSS file. very annoying. * server problems some server configurations mangle HTC files. also annoying but can usually be fixed. * caching not sure how explorer caches behaviors. but i'm sure it's not pretty. * memory leaks i've been assured that behaviors leak memory. apparently *all* explorer apps leak memory (due to poor js model) * crashes yep. behaviors crash the browser like nothing else. this is most common in testing phases (see caching above). from what i know this affects particular builds of explorer more than others. other than that i can only agree that behaviors are the way to go! hope that the group finds this information useful (and not too depressing). regards, dean edwards
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