Thanks for completely hijacking my thread there :P There are a number of current implementation of this declarative idea. Dojo Toolkit has Dijit and its parsing system has been in use for years. Hue Behavior, Apple iAd, Adobe Flex, etc…
What I’d like to talk to the community about more than anything is the specific declarative HTML syntax. What use cases do we each have? Each of us has our own unique requirements. What syntax choices do those requirements suggest for the syntax? etc… Please take another look at this gist and the comments thread and help out. My goal will be to standardize the syntax, give it a name and a site ala semver.org. So any random project in the future can simply claim that they support it with a little logo or something. https://gist.github.com/759332 — Thomas Aylott – SubtleGradient – MooTools – Cloudera — On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Aaron Newton wrote: > Behavior filters can
