[Cosmo-dev] XHTML strict and dojo

[Jeremy Epstein]

Jared Rhine wrote:
> Jeremy Epstein wrote:
>> Hi Jared,
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> Hi; did you mean to take this off-list?
no, but I seem to always miss "reply to all" in thunderbird
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>> First things first -- Is someone in eng using dojo's declaritive 
>> syntax? I know matthew is not.
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> I don't know; the issue originally flagged was with HTML attributes. 
> I'm unclear on how that relates to declarative syntax issues.  I'd be 
> happy to be schooled on this point.
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dojo offers a web-dev (as opposed to software eng) friendly syntax that 
builds dojo widgets based on detecting special attributes in markup. Its 
meant to be friendly to people accustomed to jsps-- basically a way of 
extending a component framework -- you could see it as a cross platform 
XUL lite.

>> I'm not sure what being completely strict buys you here:
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> You seem all fired up to argue against the validation-strict nazis. 
> Which is great, but I'm not one of 'em.  I was ignoring HTML standards 
> from way early on, like when we needed to send Netscape 1.x one thing 
> and a different thing to everyone else.
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I am pretty fired up about that-- not meaning to take it out on you, 
I've seen really ugly and unmaintainable things done in the name of STRICT.
> There can be benefits of validation. 
No disagreement there.
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