Rey and Jonathan, thanks for the replies. Jonathan,
I can totally relate with the "who needs a user interface developer" situation. We just lost ours, since then, I've been pushing the standardization idea for look, feel and code across all of our websites and applications. It's been slow going, but since we're now adopting jQuery, I hope things will speed up when they see how standardization can change things. No more support tickets which get answered "Don't use Firefox, that widget only works with IE 6". - jake On 3/7/07, Jonathan Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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/
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