Hi Jake, I went through almost the exact same thing this January. My current project is a very large J2EE financial services project. We have a couple hundred developers world-wide on the project and when I came aboard we had no User Interface architect or UI engineer (which, IMHO, almost always seems to be an after thought in most IT projects).
I was tasked to clean up the interface and bring a common framework for the html/css/javascript (dom/presentation/behaviors). There was so much CSS classes and inline javascript events, it was really nuts. HTML tables within tables within nested tables, yuck. I spent the month of December creating a DOM API document targeted towards developers and completely refactored an entire section of the application. In January, we gathered most of the front-end developers together for an hour session on the new framework. When I should how they would 'inherit' presentation and behaviors when simply applying a single CSS class, they we almost speechless. They had so many questions about the new DOM API and how I was doing so much with so little code. It was a great session! I would recommend to refactor a section of your code base, that your developer know well and show the difference. And I would also provide a reference DOM API document that would describe your special classes/ids and its resulting behaviors. Cheers and good luck! -jf --- Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, first let me say I've had an absolutely wonderful time utilizing > jQuery for all of my javascript tasks. So wonderful, that I've convinced > my > boss that we should throw out every one (we're using about 4 or 5) of > the > javascript frameworks and random scripts we're currently using and > consolidate all of our web applications under jQuery. This is a library > of > about 60 web applications that have to be re-examined and partially > rewritten. This Monday, I'm scheduled to give a 30 minute presentation > to > the development team about JavaScript and jQuery, essentially a couple > of > short tutorials / propaganda session to get them hyped about this > technology. I'm sending out this email to see if anyone has done > something > like this yet, what their experience was like and maybe garner a couple > of > pointers or things I should bring up in my presentation. > > Thanks, > > - jake > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
