John Barton wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
<al...@wirfs-brock.com <mailto:al...@wirfs-brock.com>> wrote:
I should have also included:
2A) Hopefully, overtime, the old script syntactic goal will fade
from use, and the module goal will become the norm for new code.
Now here is a reason, finally, for all the extra complexity the two
goals cause.
If we want to kill script, let's not stab it with a dull pencil. Let's
make Loader and System be modules, not globals. Then you cannot load
modules with <script>, only with <module>.
We are not killing <script>> Dream on!
Introducing a new HTML element with implicit CDATA content model will
require the old
<module>
<!-- hide script here
if (a < b) { console.log("<\/script> haha"); }
-->
</module>
hacks. This won't do anything (even render the HTML-commented-out
fallback content) in old browsers, which will make it hard to work in
both new and old.
Using <script> with a new attribute has several advantages, in contrast:
1. No need for the return of the HTML comment-hiding hack I invented in
Netscape 2 to avoid inline script content showing as fallback in
pre-Netscape-2 browsers.
2. Old browsers ignore the new attribute will process the content, which
could be written to work "both ways".
But mainly: no way to kill script. Amending above words: do not dream
on, wake up!
/be
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