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I found a very good presentation about Unobtrusive Javascript by Steven Chipman which he made for his colleagues over at aol (via domscripting.com/blog) and after watching it i definitely must recommend it vividly to anyone interested in javascript and specially to those who have joined the AJAX bandwagon. It won't take more than 20 minutes of your time and it's worth it.

It covers topics such as keeping markup, presentation and behaviour layers separated, graceful degrading in case of Javascript/CSS/Images not being supported, semantic documents, mentions the newly formed WaSP Dom Scripting Task Force and more. It's followed by an interesting but short Q/A.

Some of these are the reasons for me being unhappy with certain parts of my website, which i hope to fix in the future. As someone once told me: Don't apologize for «old» code, it's there to remind you of the progress you've made since then. Still, that doesn't keep me from improving it. :)

To watch the video you'll need Quicktime 7, which is only available for Mac. For windows, there's a public preview you can download. If not, just listening to the audio will give you a pretty good feel of the presentation.

Watch the video.[slayeroffice.com]