From the Ajaxian weblog comes a new Ajax library, LaCo.
At Ajaxian I read:
From “The Spotty Blog” today, we learn about a new Ajax toolkit that allows developers to add Ajax functionality “without getting their hands dirty” with the actual code - LaCo - Late Content.
At the LaCo site, I see:
<div laco_src="less_important_content.html"></div>
Beep! Invalid (X)HTML.
I can appreciate Ajax library developers not wanting to get people's hands dirty with code, but getting their markup dirty with 'custom' attributes isn't necessarily a step up.
I demonstrated earlier how Ajax libraries can be 'fixed' to allow their use and still create a valid web page. There are other options, too, such as giving the people instructions in how to set parameters in JS without necessarily having to do more than a 'variable equals value' (a = 1) statement. Folks already use this for much of their software, including Wordpress, Planet, and so on. It's no more complicated and, in fact, cleaner and less complicated than having people annotate their markup with invalid attributes.
