Comments on: Simply JavaScript: The Core Library

By: ecunha

ecunha — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:04:14 +0000

Kevin,

Just to congratulate you and let you know that I have been using your library since June and my code is much cleaner and easier to maintain! I am now trying to ‘convert’ my colleagues to ‘unobtrusive’ javascript.

Thanks,
Everardo

By: Patrick Kwinten

Patrick Kwinten — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:38:55 +0000

I have got some problems implementing this library and getting it running in Firefox.

In IE I have no problem writing functions what use the library and get them started.
But in FireFox it looks like it just hops over the function after init: function()

What to do?

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:05:17 +0000

It should be noted that if anyone decides to copy and paste the example from the article, that they should make sure they don’t leave spurious commas after the last function definition. Don’t copy and paste the above snippet and hope it will work immediately without errors.

By: jamslam

jamslam — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:04:04 +0000

Those functions reminds me a lot of DHTML Utopia, a sitepoint book released a while ago. I’ve since incorporated them into my own library, and I must say, I don’t ever write javascript without them.

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:31:54 +0000

Australia always is first with everything, but you really are ahead of your time there. It’s August, isn’t it? ;-)

Good catch, Peter! :)

By: gafitescu

gafitescu — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:22:04 +0000

I hope that future release of the browsers will have this functionality of the Core library allready available as Javascript development is growing very fast.
Great piece of code for “unobtrusive scripting” as you emphasize it.

By: Peter Müller

Peter Müller — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:55:06 +0000

> Download: core.js (ZIP file, version 1.0, 2007-09-29)

Australia always is first with everything, but you really are ahead of your time there. It’s August, isn’t it? ;-)

By: cranial-bore

cranial-bore — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:56:09 +0000

I don’t know about YUI being swollen.
The core yahoo-dom-event components are ~9kb compressed.
Add the element utility, connection manager, drag and drop and animation and the total is still ~25kb compressed.

jQuery is 20kb compressed.

Back on topic, I think a minimal library to smooth out some of the inconsistencies of JS is a great idea. It avoids the complexity of learning a fuller library for beginners, while encouraging them to avoid browser conditions to be repeated throughout their own code.

One must understand basic JS before using a library’s added features.