>Just curious.
>What do you think
the "guiding ideas" of XHTML are?
well in the context of the original
post, and perhaps this was a poor choice of words making it sound as though I
had an over-arcing conception when it was just a conception as related to
static links and dynamic links, that the linkage between any element in a document and some web resource
should be clearly delineated through the syntax for links specified in the
standard and not dynamically established by utilizing a scripting language,
e.g. in my understanding to say <a href=”http://www.some.com”>link
here</a> was preferable to having <a href=”#”
onmouseover=”javascript:mylink(‘param1’,’param2’)”>link
here</a> which in turn was preferable to having.
<script>
new menu object, populate
menu with links via array, overwrite specific menu style settings as methods of
object.
</script>
the third method is as a
general rule the way most dhtml menu scripts work,
especially the multi-level ones, by which I mean hierarchical menus such that
you can have
menu–
--submenu
--link
--link
--submenu
--link
--/submenu
--/submenu
--link
--link
--/menu
it was my understanding
that with XHTML 2.0 this was especially frowned on, and that method two was not
much appreciated either. I suppose also that there are sound reasons to not
like this, aside from just a preference for markup, but because I figured you
couldn’t programmatically crawl such dynamically generated links,
although that is just a guess as I have no experience with spiders, other than
quick scripted hacks to download particular sites.
