- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:36:38 +0100
- To: Val Sharp <val@valsharp.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Val Sharp wrote: > > Has author scripting gone out of fashion - because surely it could be > used to achieve the effect without too much difficulty? Bert would say "Script should never go over the network". In practice, that turns into "90% of all scripting tasks should be done declaratively". Declarative effects are much easier to author and debug, in general, than scripted effects. They are also (in the case of CSS) easier to override (it's not an all-or-nothing affair). -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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