Chris Heilmann on Unobtrusive JavaScript
This is a topic I mention fairly often, but have not taken the time to write an article about. Fortunately, there is a lot of good information already available on the web. Chris Heilmann of Yahoo, Inc. and owner of the blog “Wait till I come!” just posted his thoughts, which he summarized into 7 rules:
http://icant.co.uk/articles/seven-rules-of-unobtrusive-javascript/
Here are some other useful resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript
http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/
The future of web programming is unobtrusive JavaScript, just look at the major portal companies and how they are separating JavaScript from design. If you have not invested the time to properly understand it, there is never a better time than now ^_^.
Cheers, and thanks for the endorsement of UJ :).
Actually it is Yahoo, Ltd. in the UK and I’ve done the onlinetools.org article long before I joined
Comment by Chris Heilmann — November 13, 2007 @ 1:54 pm