Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Lennart Borgman]

On Dec 20, 2014 5:47 PM, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Lennart Borgman writes:
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>  > I think with HTML5 you do not need any package any longer. You just
>  > write it in HTML5/EcmaScript. (I do these things very often now.)
>
> If you say so, but a quick look at the current W3C recommendation for
> HTML5 doesn't reveal anything like standard AJAX events, just the
> now-ancient ones like onclick and so on.  I don't think HTML5 has
> really changed anything in this respect: if you can do it with HTML5
> you can do it with HTML4.
>
> It's possible that adding a few lines of Ecmascript per link would do
> the trick, but that sounds ugly to say the least.  And scripts, being
> dynamic and possibly interacting with the network, require
> error-handling to be robust.

There is AddEventlistener, XMLHttpRequest, etc.

The normal way to add something like what I suggested would be to add a class to each link and then use that to add event handlers. Very nice in my opinion.