Well, I eventually made the tough choice I talked about last night and went to Jeremy Keith’s presentation on Using DOM Scripting to plug the holes in CSS.
Now, I should probably point out here that I’m not, by any stretch of the imagination, a programmer, and to date, have avoided doing anything more with javascript and DOM scripting than modifying scripts that other people have written and clearly explained.
That said, Jeremy was such an excellent presenter, and was so clear and understandable that I think he might well have convinced me to re-think my stance, and perhaps explore more of what DOM scripting has to offer.
There were loads of great examples of what could best described as progressive enhancements - even when it looked like he was generating content via DOM scripting, all he was really doing was manipulating information that was already there - which reassured me when I managed to get hold of the microphone and ask the question.
He was very clear when he said that these techniques (specifically generating content) should not be used for mission critical information.
AJAX is another matter, but that wasn’t the focus of the day.
As a prize for asking a question, I managed to get my hands on a copy of Stuart Langridge’s book, DHTML Utopia, which will be very interesting reading.
