Web Work
JavaScript, jQuery & Other Frameworks
JavaScript was special effects for website. It was floating banners and fancy things which made little difference to a page. Changing the status bar for little or no reason, that was the first age of JavaScript.
Then JavaScript started to be a little more important. It moved into things like menus which provided deep navigation — this one for The Bluebook from 2002 is a good example — that became important to the site. This was the second age of JavaScript.
Facebook, Last.fm, Flickr. These websites rely on JavaScript — which is in the third age now — to offer an experience which the website rely on. Facebook without AJAX is painfully slow, and one could not imagine it having 5000m users if it were to run in such a way.
In this the third age of JavaScript we are in a situation where to ensure an experience for most users and that JavaScript based functionality is at the core of the web design and build process.
With experience through the whole web site publishing cycle I build JavaScripting — and the fall backs for users without it — into the heart of my work.
I have over a decade of experience using JavaScript (my framework of choice is jQuery) and I know how to use it effectively.