What the article (which /is/ very good) is implying is that you should
be using event listenters rather than making a call to the javascript
protocol in the href attribute. In your instance, something like:
(given the following html)
<a href="/path/to/myfile.html" id="widget">contextual link</a>
<!--
if there is no file you're linking to, don't use an anchor... if this
is just to call a javascript function, it would be more appropriate to
attach an event to an image or some such...
-->
here's the appropriate JS (regardless of what element you choose, so
long as it has the id):
<script type='text/javascript'>
var oWidg = document.getElementById('widget');
oWidg.addEventListener("click",foo,false);
function foo(){
// do something
}
</script>
Now, by extension, the idea should be that if you encapsulate and
modularize the code in such a fashion, you should be able to automate
the attachment of these behaviors... perhaps you actually target an
element that is parent to a group of elements that need the behavior,
then loop through it's children attaching these behaviors... that
would definitely eliminate the necessity for writing lots of inline
calls to the JavaScript protocol... not to mention making the document
degrade gracefully in browsers that can't handle the JS.
- Stephen
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:26:07 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm, very good article, and I've bookmarked it, but after reading all five
> sections I didn't see anything germane to the question of a replacement for
> the javascript token in an href function call. Did I miss something? What
> section was it in?
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pau Garcia i Quiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 6:42 PM
> Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: Abbreviation for "javascript" (??)
>
> Maybe this (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/behaved-dhtml-case-study) can
> help.
>
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> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [wdvltalk] Abbreviation for "javascript" (??)
> >Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:22:57 -0400
> >
> >
> >Don't know if such a beastie exists, but my boss just asked me about it,
> >so
> >I thought I'd see if anyone here had heard of one. In constructions such
> >as
> >this, <a href="javascript:foo(bar);", is there any shorter token that the
> >parser will recognize than "javascript" to indicate the function call?
> l
> >have not personally ever seen or heard of one, but then, I haven't seen
> or
> >heard of a lot of things that exist nonetheless.
> >
> >So, anyone know if there is an abbreviated token to use for "javascript"
> >in
> >these HREF calls? Almost as good would be a definitive answer that there
> >is
> >not, so I could pass that along. BTW, the reason for this is that we have
> >a
> >menu with some thousand items (not, of course, at the same level) and our
> >wonderful AS/400-based gen tool has a 60kb limit to its stream, which means
> >we're getting partially loaded pages and blown up scripts, which we could
> >avoid by eliminating (or shortening) all those repetitious "javascript"
> >tokens.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Scott
> >
> >
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