Comments on: Using jQuery for evil http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/10/05/using-jquery-for-evil/ ramblings of a late 20s IT nerd / volleyball junkie / semi-professional drinker Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Damian Brady http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/10/05/using-jquery-for-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-8559 Damian Brady Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:25:05 +0000 http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/?p=116#comment-8559 I totally, 100% agree with you. Perhaps I didn't make it clear that this was my last option. I would have much preferred to make changes to the code that created and delivered the html, but that wasn't an option. It was simply far too difficult and problematic to change most of the html that is delivered to the browser. To put it simply, a big black box dumps html into my templates. For example, while the templates I can edit define the tags, the rows and cells are beyond my control. So yes, not an ideal option, but unfortunately about the only workable one. I totally, 100% agree with you. Perhaps I didn’t make it clear that this was my last option.

I would have much preferred to make changes to the code that created and delivered the html, but that wasn’t an option. It was simply far too difficult and problematic to change most of the html that is delivered to the browser. To put it simply, a big black box dumps html into my templates. For example, while the templates I can edit define the tags, the rows and cells are beyond my control.

So yes, not an ideal option, but unfortunately about the only workable one.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/10/05/using-jquery-for-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-8554 Michael Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:46:06 +0000 http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/?p=116#comment-8554 I would exhaust every work around to this approach before taking this approach. This approach is like a book editor realizing that a printed book still needs edits, but it would be too much work to re-print the books, so he crosses out words and writes the edits in the margins of the book by hand. Its an ugly substitute to doing things the correct way. Not to mention, this approach will cause any new programmer on this project terrific head aches, when they can figure out why the last row in mytable is always disappearing. I would exhaust every work around to this approach before taking this approach. This approach is like a book editor realizing that a printed book still needs edits, but it would be too much work to re-print the books, so he crosses out words and writes the edits in the margins of the book by hand. Its an ugly substitute to doing things the correct way. Not to mention, this approach will cause any new programmer on this project terrific head aches, when they can figure out why the last row in mytable is always disappearing.

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