The seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript
Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 11:39 pmI’ve written a lot about unobtrusive JavaScript before, but I never really held a workshop about it. Well, now as part of the Paris Web Conference later this week in Paris, France I am giving one which is already sold out and I am very much looking forward to it.
As part of the workshop I prepared my materials and wanted to have a nice outline to follow. I took this as an opportunity to build up on the older materials and the outcome of this exercise is that I managed to define the rules of unobtrusive JavaScript, which are:
- Do not make any assumptions
- Find your hooks and relationships
- Leave traversing to the experts
- Understand browsers and users
- Understand Events
- Play well with others
- Work for the next developer
I’ve explained them all in some detail here: The seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript
After the workshop I will also add the code demos with some more detail, but that’ll be most probably after @media Ajax.
I hope this is helpful to you, it is creative commons, so use it for good.
Tags: bestpractices, javascript, methodology, planning, scripting, unobtrusive, unobtrusivejavascript, webdevtrick