Slides from a three hour tutorial presented at XTech 2008 on the 6th of May. See also <a href="http://simonwillison.net/static/2008/xtech/">the supporting notes</a>.

1. Unobtrusive JavaScript
with jQuery
Simon Willison
XTech , 6th May 2008

2. How I learned to stop worrying
and love JavaScript

3. Unobtrusive A set of principles for
writing accessible,
JavaScript maintainable JavaScript
A library that supports
unobtrusive scripting

4. Unobtrusive JavaScript Theory
jQuery Practice

5. We will cover
• The what and why of unobtrusive JavaScript
• Why use a library at all?
• Why pick jQuery?
• How jQuery handles...
• DOM manipulation
• Event handling
• Animation
• Ajax

6. Unobtrusive JavaScript