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Building Bridges Between GUIs and Code With Markup APIs

www.toolness.com on 01/14/2013

Excerpt: Markup APIs give superpowers to HTML. Through the use of class attributes, data attributes, X-Tags, or other conventions they effectively extend the behavior of HTML, turning it into a kind of magic ink. Favorite examples of mine include Twitter Bootstrap, Wowhead Tooltips, and my own Instapoppin. The advantages of a markup API over a JavaScript API are numerous: They mean that an author only needs to know HTML, whose syntax is very easy to learn, rather than JavaScript, whose syntax is comparatively difficult to learn. Because the API is in HTML rather than JavaScript, it’s declarative rather than imperative.... read the full post.
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