- From: Jens Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:45:44 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
> > > separate their usir interface logic from their user interface > > > semantics. On the contrary, it seems preferable to keep them > > > together. > > > > For authoring convenience, maybe. For maintenance, no. > > I would have thought they were the same. > Sure, there are limits to how much you should put into the markup. But > things like <button onclick=""> and <body onload> or <img onload> are > pretty harmless as far as that goes -- you're not going to change a button > to stop responding to clicks unless you also change a lot more. With due respect, that is just not true. Practice does not depend on project complexity to prove that; it’s just a matter of time until you end up maintaining HTML documents or templates for which a simple script tweak would have sufficed (similar to style sheet updates). (I think we can move this discussion off-thread though.) -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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