unobtrusive-javascript – Page 2

So what if custom HTML attributes aren’t valid XHTML?

February 10, 2023 by Tarik

The ramification is that w3c comes along in 2, 5, 10 years and creates an attribute with the same name. Now your page is broken. HTML5 is going to provide a data attribute type for legal custom attributes (like data-myattr=”foo”) so maybe you could start using that now and be reasonably safe from future name … Read more

window.onload vs $(document).ready()

August 29, 2022 by Tarik

The ready event occurs after the HTML document has been loaded, while the onload event occurs later, when all content (e.g. images) also has been loaded. The onload event is a standard event in the DOM, while the ready event is specific to jQuery. The purpose of the ready event is that it should occur … Read more