- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:34:44 -0000
- To: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"Jon Hanna" <jon@spinsol.com> > > Well it's better (but having it as an external script seems very > > wasteful.) > > It hides the script from non js-aware browsers in a way that is both > valid HTML (which may choke on <[CDATA[) and valid XHTML (which > doesn't guarantee that anything in a <!--comment--> won't be deleted > before parsing Which isn't a problem - especially as there aren't real XHTML browsers about... >). Besides which external scripts have a speed > advantage if the script is used more than once (albeit this only > really happens with larger scripts), For a 100byte script it's a lot more than once, and assumes you visitors both visit multiple pages, and your cache settings are all friendly. > and it makes source code easier > to manage especially in the common situation where not all the people > working on the HTML are familiar with js. So you have to teach them to add a button with <script ... > it's an argument, but I don't feel it's a good one. > also why have > > the DIV? > > <script> is a block level element. As such it cannot appear in an > inline situation. Also if a script document.write's then it should be > seen as being replaced by that code. It should? which specification states this? it's certainly not the result in any parsers I've seen (they include both.) Jim.
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