> It's easy to jump to the conclusion that generating markup from script
> is always an awful thing to do - but there are some cases where it's
> extremely handy.

That's right, of course; I rather referred to the example, and I often saw
really questionable use of especially JavaScript, see e.g. an example of some
T-Online PDA code:

<http://t-news.pda.t-online.de/zone/vosu/highlights.html >

Please see 'function o()' here. -- Note: This is the final status of a CeBIT
presentation (and thus frozen). I had to review these sources, and during
the project some (but not all) things were improved. Don't ask me why T-Online
decided to generate the dropdown instead of exhausting their (comfortable)
CMS.


 Jens Meiert.



> 
> On Saturday, June 28, 2003, 3:07:46 PM, Jens Meiert wrote:
> > > <p>Here is a
> > > <script>
> > > document.write("complete paragraph<");
> > > document.write("/p>");
> > > </script>
> > 
> > The silly thing is to generate markup by scripts (imagine if
> > JavaScript is disabled). 
> 
> It's easy to jump to the conclusion that generating markup from script
> is always an awful thing to do - but there are some cases where it's
> extremely handy.
> 
> Imagine if you wanted to have an element on the page that only had a
> point in existing when scripting is enabled, like, for instance, a
> checkbox that allows all links on the page to open in a new window.
> 
> If the checkbox was in the HTML as it was, then it would actually
> makes things worse for users with no scripting - they'd have a useless
> and pointless checkbox.
> 
> You could of course use the DOM to generate the checkbox, but you'd
> have to wait for onload to fire, which is a bad thing - it would mean
> the page would most likely jump down when the checkbox was inserted,
> and if for some freak reason the page didn't ever load (an endlessly
> loading image, for example), then the checkbox would never appear.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Gilder, http://tom.me.uk/ 
>  Blog! http://blog.tom.me.uk/ 
> 
> 


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