Re: Intelligent JavaScript handling

In response to comments by Scott Matthewman and boots:

I generally agree in principle with Scott, but I think there are (valid)
exceptions, and programming style is a matter of preference/experience. Most
javascript (or certainly large amounts of javascript) is imho best served by
an included script anyway, as the browser can cache it better. However,
there are regular FAQs here from people who need to be told to use
{literal}, and a smaller but still significant number of those then have
problems which require dropping in and out of {literal} to use Smarty tags
in the script.

Thus {literal} is both required and, in many cases insufficient for script
purposes, and while I might be happy to code differently (even "better") to
suite {literal}'s limitations, I don't think we should preach to others, and
for that matter I don't want to dictate to the guys who design templates for
the code I write, since they're usually the client not me.

As to whether this is a specific Javascript issue - I don't think it is. For
example, the following won't work:
    {literal}
    <style>
        .main {
            color: {$main.color};
            background-color: {$main.bgcolor};
        }
    </style>
    {/literal}

However, switching {literal} for {script}, interpretted as described
previously, would work. I don't think it is good programming style to
scatter definitions around CSS files (usually the same obscure colour will
appear multiple times in the same style definition, making it difficult to
maintain, and in any case it shouldn't be necessary to have completely
different stylesheets for a simple colour change, so running CSS files
through Smarty makes a lot of sense). So this (imho) is a "good programming"
case for this functionality.

In fact, it is a general issue whenever we want to have a block of text
(code/css/whatever) which needs to use { and } but which you also want to
use Smarty tags within. Maybe {script} would be the wrong name, but I do
think it would be a valuable addition.

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Mark Rogers,
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