I forget if I’ve mentioned this before, but we’re all carrying all manner of legacy decisions about producing web pages. We’ve got the web-safe colour thing, the acessible Javascript thing, the quirks or no quirks thing and so on. I’m currently working for a company that is stuck deep in some of the darker areas of these debates and it’s a pretty grim thing to experience.
Anyways, I thought this piece on writing javascript in 2005 is a wonderful breath of fresh air and should be read by any team still arguing about how menus ought to be built, or forms improved or…