Behaviour, Return of Clean HTML

// March 9th, 2006 // Technology Bits

Behaviour LogoAs we’ve begun adopting Ajax, JSON, and similar JavaScript heavy technologies a problem quickly arose. Suddenly our clean HTML was being cluttered with tons of script tags, onclicks, and other various event handling functions. Trying to extract this logic back out of the HTML was a definite desire for us.

Enter Behaviour.

Behaviour uses CSS selectors to specify what elements to apply JS handlers to.

Check out these demos. View the source and you’ll see clean markup that is free of logic. This allows us to step back and once again fully separate the presentation layer from the application layer.

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2 Responses to “Behaviour, Return of Clean HTML”

  1. BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic says:
    March 10, 2006 at 1:01 pm

    [...] In a fully layout separate from logic in an Ajax environment, you need to make use of Javascript event handlers. My personal choice is Behaviour which my friend, Zach, posted about yesterday. [...]

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