Archive for the ‘Javascript’ Category

Javascript, day 4…

I’ve been charged with rewriting a huge chunk of Javascript on my employers eCommerce site.
This Javascript represents years of arcane and contradicting business logic, interface decisions made by boisterous merchandisers with little to no perspective on user interaction, and a data model that is scarcely translated in whole to the front-end.
I have often been accused [...]

A brief note on jQuery/Scriptaculous compatability.

If you commonly find yourself using, or rather wanting to use jQuery and other libraries like Scriptaculous simultaneously, but encounter problems due to their warring over the $ variable space, the solution is simple.
The easiest route to take, I find, is to let Scriptaculous win the battle over the dollar sign. I am not as [...]