John O'Donovan has now blogged about this http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/knowing_when_to_go_1.html
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aleem B Sent: 05 November 2008 12:22 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links" FWIW, adding an onclick is not the preferred way of doing this. It's better to attach events to anchors during document.onload event. If anchors need to be filtered, dom/css classes can be used. Sounds interesting, care to share a little more about this method? There are some good Javascript APIs out there for providing interesting, cross-browser functionality. Prototype (prototypejs.org), jQuery and YUI are popular ones I can think of. Under jQuery you would have: $('a.outlink).click(function() { ... } which finds anchors with class name outlink and attaches an onclick event thus abstracting a lot of the JS tediousness. I actually managed to write up a pretty cool Web 2.0 Scrabble game while exploring Prototype.js http://aleembawany.com/yabble/ Google for jQuery or Prototype getting started tutorials. You should be looking to do away with any and all JS in your markup just like you would do with CSS.
