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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Greenie2600 (talk | contribs) at 04:07, 27 January 2007 (Is 'Unobtrusive JavaScript' a distinct concept worthy of a wikipedia article?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Is 'Unobtrusive JavaScript' a distinct concept worthy of a wikipedia article?

I'm very much in favour of the techniques this article is suggesting, but it seems to me that it might be a bit of a disguised how-to or essay article, and that 'Unobtrusive JavaScript' might not really exist as a distinct concept worthy of a wikipedia article.

Unless evidence can be dug up of a definite "Unobtrusive Javascript" movement it;s probably a candidate for merger or deletion. Artw 02:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A Google search for the phrase "unobtrusive javascript" turns up 138,000 results. There's a book about it. It's been formally discussed at web development conferences. The influential site alistapart.com has an article about it. The term is commonly used, with the meaning that's described in this Wikipedia article, on mailing lists, blogs, and web development tutorials across the web: example, example, example. (Examine the example sources from the last link to see that the term is, in fact, being used to describe a specific methodology that stresses separation of programmatic behavior from markup.) People have written class libraries specifically to faciliate unobtrusive JavaScript development. This blog actually uses the phrase "unobtrusive JavaScript movement".

Need more? :) Greenie2600 04:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]