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JavaScript Triggers

A new article posted at A List Apart describes the use of JavaScript to better your site’s precence as well as being able to change it’s outlook without having to create 3 different versions of the same content page, and in place, risk being panelized for duplicate content…

The front end of a website consists of three layers. XHTML forms the structural layer, which contains structural, semantic markup and the content of the site. To this layer you can add a presentation layer (CSS) and a behavior layer (JavaScript) to make your website more beautiful and user-friendly. These three layers should remain strictly separate. For instance, it should be possible to rewrite the entire presentation layer without touching either the structural or the behavior layer.

Despite this strict separation, the presentation and behavior layers need instructions from the structural layer. They must know where to add that touch of style, when to initiate that smooth bit of behavior. They need triggers… More…

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    • This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 9th, 2005 at 7:10 AM and filed under Web Design.
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