[whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
> wrote:

> "javascript:goBack();" is a labeled statement in JavaScript and the label
> is
> "javascript".  What purpose does it serve in your inline code?
> SCRIPT[type="text/xml"] can be used for semantics, including RDF.
> Inline styles and inline event handlers belong to deprecated legacy syntax.
> Inline styles were more deprecated than inline event handlers, to the point
> of banning them altogether.  Anyway, another inline intruder should not
> expect a warm reception.


Of course, now @style is a global attribute.


>
> You can replace [style] with [class], thereby moving the style to an
> external resource, but shortening the code in [onevent] does not make it
> any
> better.  There is no external declarative way of attaching event handlers
> to
> elements, except in Microsoft Internet Explorer where you can have CSS
> behaviors and SCRIPT[for] (and FUNCTION ID_ONEVENT in Visual Basic
> Scripting
> Edition), but these are proprietary extensions.
>

Not quite declarative, but I fail to see how that's a necessity.  You can
get pretty darn close, though, with any decent getElementsBySelector
function (I use one created by Dean Edwards that works wonderfully for
adding show/hide functionality to some of my pages).

Ben Adida <ben at adida.net> said:

Well, that was the argument some made, but it was soundly rejected by
folks who felt we were stepping on @class's toes. At the end of the day,
we went with the least amount of disruption possible.


Those folks must *really* hate microformats, then, as they pack *all* of
their semantics into @class.

~TJ
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