No sweat.Basically the whole concept of the standards-based web is to build up the site in *layers*.
You have the content layer defined in XHTML, often generated through server-side scripting languages such as PHP. Without any further enhancement, this should display fully readable and useful in a web browser.
The next layer is the presentation layer defined in CSS and usually also using things like background images. If you stopped developing at this point, the website should still be fully functional and useful.
After that comes the behaviour layer (defined in Javascript) that introduces things like transitions and animations and AJAX and all that good stuff.
The basic concept then, is that the behaviour layer is not written until two stages after the content layer. It makes no sense to have onclick, onchange and onmouseover events defined in the content layer (or in the XHTML) since that's a totally separate layer.
So instead, like external CSS replacing inline 'style' attributes, external Javascript files replace the inline event handler attributes (onclick etc.).
That means adding, changing or removing a behaviour is all done in the behaviour layer and it's never going to adversely affect someone who has Javascript turned off.
Hope that helps, Kit On 16/11/2007, at 8:33 AM, Michael Horowitz wrote:
I appreciate that. Just wanted to let people know I solved the issue with / quotes.I would appreciate people explaining more about what the changes are in good practices for web standards that people were criticizing the tutorials on. I've ordered one of the recommended books but wanted some background in the change in coding practices. As a newbie to javascript I figure I can learn it right the first timeMichael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Mark Harris wrote:With respect to all involved, this is the Web Standards Group, not the JavaScript 101 group. Could I suggest, Michael, that you look for a more appropriate venue as you continue on your (laudable) quest to learn something new? Thanks.Regards Mark Harris Technology Research and Consultancy Services Ltd ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************************************************************************** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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