True, most of the output formats for Tobago which come to my mind have
an XML based syntax, therefore you have a DOM and it's pretty easy to
define a JavaScript binding for this DOM.
If I take SVG (I always wanted a SVG renderer for Tobago ;-) as an
example the standard scripting language is JavaScript. The question is
if scripts written for the HTML DOM will work on the SVG DOM as well.
I'm still hoping that most of the common problems where you normally
resort to scripting can be solved in Tobago directly in an abstract way.
There are other output media, where the standard scripting language is
not JavaScript. For example, I took a look at ActionScript for Flash,
which reminds me more of BASIC... but I never really worked with Flash,
so I might be wrong here.
Since Tobago currently doesn't support any other output medium in a
complete manor, perhaps we should support more JavaScript events than we
currently do. Actually I consider the supported JavaScript event
handlers more or less as hacks and I would like to get rid of them. I
have some bad memories regarding JavaScript in a taglib similiar to
Tobago...
Regards,
Arvid
Martin Marinschek wrote:
Hmmm....
Thing is that for XML based languages, JavaScript has become something
like a scripting standard.
regards,
Martin
On 10/6/05, Udo Schnurpfeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
this is a known problem, but we don't have a solution yet.
The main idea of Tobago is that the source code (especially the JSP
pages) are independent from the output format (e.g. HTML). If we allow
to set "onchange" and "onclick" events, the source code will depend on
the output format.
One solution might be to use an "abstract" scripting language, which can
be translated into different output formats.
But there is no decision yet.
Do you have a concrete problem? Maybe I can help you?
Regards,
Udo
Dani Kenan wrote:
Hi,
I would like to handle onchage or onclick events in the client side.
It seems missing from the Tobago tld.
Is there away around this limitation? Is there a chance to get a fix for that?
TIA
Dani
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