jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices | How-To | Smashing Magazine

jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices | How-To | Smashing Magazine: "Unobtrusive DOM Scripting

While the term “DOM scripting” really just refers to the use of scripts (in this case, Javascripts) to access the Document Object Model, it has widely become accepted as a way of describing what should really be called “unobtrusive DOM scripting”—basically, the art of adding Javascript to your page in such a way that if there were NO Javascript, the page would still work (or at least degrade gracefully). In the website world, our DOM scripting is done using Javascript."