Re: [Atomos-discuss] Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle

[Coaster <rol...@gm...>]

Hi, I'm a spectator here... (Friend of Weirdbro's.)

Why use HTML? Given the fact that you aren't marking up hypertext, a
custom XML definition would probably be better suited for the task.

(Just my two cents.)

On 1/11/07, Bryan Elliott <for...@gm...> wrote:
> Application GUIs should be built in HTML as groupings of DIV elements, and
> such, with CSS for positioning and stylization, but not directly included
> (ie: include the Window as a div style='display: none', and copy its
> contents out via DOM to create an instance).  Well, that would be the best
> way, but it doesn't always work, so normally we'll just toss it into an
> innerHTML, link in the behaviors, and pray for workingness ^_^.
>
> An unfortunate thing about IE is that it doesn't play well with 'custom'
> tags.  For example, <window>Some innerHTML</window> confuses IE to the point
> that the tag gets registered with the DOM, but not it's innerHTML - and the
> ending tag throws an error.  As a result, our predefined UI tags should be
> of the form <div class='window'></div>
>
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