„AJAX (asynchronous javascript and xml) has been getting a lot of press lately. It is seen as a way to add desktop-application functionality to html pages. Things like Drag and drop, Fluid animations and Dynamic page updates.
It’s great to see public uptake of these technologies – but it worries me to see the influx of tags and onclick attributes into webpages.
After all the work of WASP and others to promote clean markup, valid pages and graceful degradataion via css – it sucks that we’re going back to tag soup days by throwing javascript tags into our html.
The better way to do javascript is to do it unobtrusively. PPK and Simon Willison have been recommending this approach for ages. And it’s definitely the way to go. The only problem is that it’s a bit of a pain in the ass.
That’s why I came up with Behaviour – my solution to unobtrusive javascript behaviours.
How does it work?
Behaviour lets you use CSS selectors to specify elements to add javascript events to“
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours