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It's always struck me as ironic that so many of us who carry the banner of semantic, validated X/HTML are willing to inject all kinds of stuff into pages at runtime. What is this -- we don't want to dirty our own hands typing non-semantic markup, but it's OK to build a robot to do the evil deed for us? If we always saw the generated source of our pages instead of the pre-scripting markup, I'm sure we'd recoil, aghast, and mend our errant ways.
Not to defend generated source (which I am not fan of), but there are more points to consider: in case someone will write a parser to extract something from the markup absence of the decorative hooks makes that task easier. Also, in happy times when multiple background images are commonly supported getting rid of one <script...> is easier than fishing out all extra divs, spans, etc. Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
