Chapter 5. Best Practices
What this chapter covers:
Graceful degradation: ensuring that your web pages still work without JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript: separating structure from behavior
Backward compatibility: ensuring that older browsers don't choke on your scripts
Performance considerations: making sure that your script is performing at its best
Together, JavaScript and the DOM form a powerful combination. It's important that you use this power wisely. This chapter describes some best practices that you can use to ensure that your scripts don't do more harm than good.
Mistakes of the past
Before we get to the specifics of best practices for having web pages work correctly, let's take a quick look at some reasons that things can go wrong.
Don't ...
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