[Javascript] separating structure, style, and behavior

[Paul Novitski]

Shawn,

I'm still using the Transitional doctype (or none -- "quirksmode") but 
would like to move to Strict -- IFF it helps me write more robust 
pages.  Can you share some of the bumps along your learning curve while 
moving to Strict?  Was there anything you had to sacrifice?  A handy list 
of things to avoid?  Subtle lessons you had to learn the hard way because 
they weren't well documented?  (I know there must be good descriptions of 
making the doctype transition somewhere on the net, I just haven't seen 
them yet.)

Thanks for the link to Haran's site, which I hadn't stumbled across 
before.  Here are some more of my favorite useful sites, full of great 
Javascript & CSS material:

Quirksmode by Peter-Paul Koch
http://www.quirksmode.org/

Eric Meyer's CSS pages
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/

A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com/

Paul


At 11:11 AM 5/6/2004, Shawn Milo wrote:
>I began using CSS for layout and XHTML Strict not too long ago.
>I was convinced that it was the right way to go by a friend.
>
>Since then, I have found this site invaluable:
>
>http://members.aardvark.net.au/haran/oswd/gila/
>
>This is basically a template site.  I've used it for many
>sites and web applications since then, and modifying it
>for my own uses has taught me CSS pretty well.  It's nice
>to start with a working model.
>
>I e-mailed Haran (the creator), and he is pleased to have
>anyone copy and borrow from it.  He just wants to promote
>standards.  He's a nice guy to talk to, as well.
>
>I love validating my page against the W3C validator, and
>getting the message "This Page is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict".
>Doing this has cleaned up my Javascript, as well.  The only
>downside is that when I look at some of my older web apps,
>still in production at work, I groan.  There is a lot of
>work to do now to convert them.  The benefit is that, once
>I have something that complies with W3C standards, it's so
>much nicer when I have to go back and maintain that app.
>
>:o)
>
>Shawn
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