asemanfar - a blog about programming

So I've been cleaning up my blog's code base and decided to switch to unobtrusive javascript. I've heard many reasons advocating its use but for some reason, they never stuck. Until a couple of weeks ago when I worked on a Railsrumble project with a couple of buddies of mine, one of which was a big advocate of unobtrusive javascript using LowPro. Actually using unobtrusive javascript turned out to be much more gratifying that I anticipated. It satisfied some inner OCD tendencies of mine that a lot of programmers share and it made developing javascript'd UIs much easier to develop and much much easier to maintain.

Looking back, I don't think know why I chose to use the Rails javascript helpers or RJS; I like writing javascript, especially when there are great frameworks out there like LowPro and Prototype. The fact that the Rails javascript helpers generate inline javascript, which sometimes turns out being longer than a simple one-liner, is kind of gross. As for RJS, the fact that it's generates code that contains both the data and the logic makes OCD baby Jesus cry.

The separation of HTML (markup), CSS (presentation), Javascript (interactivity) is almost as awesome as the separation of church and state...oh wait, crap.

If you haven't already switched, do it now!