[thelist] AJAX Tip

[Matt Warden]

On 4/6/06, Lee kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > How do you NOT use the DOM when you want to do unobtrusive Scripting?
> > Even if it is DOM-1?
>
>
> Hmm, let's see...
>
> <a href="picture.jpg" onclick="return showPicture(this, 'picture.jpg');"><img
> src="thumbnail.jpg" /></a>

That is the part that is not unobtrusive. There should not be JS in
the markup. I think this is where Christian is confused, because
typically you'd do:

var foo = document.getElementById('...');
if (foo) foo.onclick = function() { showPicture('picture.jpg'); };

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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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