A List Apart Comments for Article: Behavioral Separation

İt's usefull article... :)

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:43:01 GMT

Hi, it's usefull article, i will say thanks... :)

Want more?

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:05:13 GMT

If you liked the article and want to read more, definitely check out Jeremy's book, DOM Scripting. He didn't plug the book, and most people have heard of the book, but this article is a great example of what you can find in the book. -Chasen

This is really nice!

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:25:40 GMT

I hate adding JS and it messing up my page and making it look horrid. It would be great to use this method and then link to a page saying how JavaScript is required to use a function for example. Have ordered the book :)

Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:52:59 GMT

The "Behaviour":http://bennolan.com/behaviour/ library greatly simplifies this type of separation. Standard CSS selectors are used to apply javascript behavior. The image gallery separation example of the article condenses to this (not tested): var myrules = { '#imagegallery a' : function(element) { element.onclick = function(element){ return showPic(element); } } }; Behaviour.register(myrules);

Will be looking for more DOM info

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:06:13 GMT

Wow, this article makes a lot of sense, and gives me a new way of looking at things for web pages and web art. I am a little confused about the object module stuff, but you have sparked my curiousity enough with a more effecient way of doing things that I must learn more.

Behaviour

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:10:10 GMT

Ted, you're quite right about the Behaviour library. I especially like the motivation behind it. From the website: "It's great to see public uptake of these technologies - but it worries me to see the influx of script tags and onclick attributes into webpages." It's also nice and lightweight. The usual caveats apply: make sure you understand the code, and be aware of any cross-browser issues. But yes, Behaviour is well worth checking out.

Slight caveat...

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:40:06 GMT

It's worth remembering that onLoad only fires when all elements of the page have loaded; on pages where there are many graphics, etc., there can be a substantial lag between when controls are loaded and when they become accessible. "Dean Edwards":http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2006/06/again#comment5338 has a cross-browser solution which should give this type of javascript code management an extra level of useability.

Great article

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:43:57 GMT

Nice to see this technique explained in an ALA article. I have been using Behaviour for a little while and love it. It is nice to see an explanation of how to code it " by hand", so to speak.

Review

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:34:11 GMT

One of the better articles here at A List Apart. Not good in any way, but still.

About CSS and Events...

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:47:29 GMT

Thank you for this good article. It is well written and explains in a few words the reasons for switching to this "new javascript". I enjoyed reading it as it is a topic I'm very interested in. For those interested, I wrote two Javascript "includes" (object in fact): an events manager, and a CSS styles manager; those can be found here: http://yves.gablin.club.fr/gablin.php?page=pc_javascript Yves.

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:50:15 GMT

It's too bad you're not allowed to say anything here. I could have said something constructive several times, but I don't give hints to fascists. Just don't.

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:52:13 GMT

Ok. That was unfair. You are allowed to lick the next one's hungry ass.

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:52:54 GMT

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:53:30 GMT

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:54:15 GMT

This article is so perfect I don't believe a human could've written it. It must've been generated on alien Mac OS X servers.

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:54:35 GMT

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:55:00 GMT

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:55:19 GMT

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:55:57 GMT

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:56:31 GMT

I'd marry you.

It's not always necessary

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:56:42 GMT

You don't always have to do your separation at the client level if it's more work than it's worth. A shining example is the Ruby on Rails framework which produces seemingly nasty inline JS hooks. It's okay, though, because the code RoR generates for your is irrelevant in a management aspect, just as long as it works. This is because the generators already provide the separation for you. Setting up the generators to write the JS to a main