I’m doing a recap on 2007 here at work for my own sake, and I’ve termed 2007 the “year of the hack”. Our site architecture is aged and is in the process of being replaced, but that work is a couple of years away from completion. As we attempt to add new and better functionality to our site, we constantly run into roadblocks from a content and technology perspective that requires us to cobble a solution together, typically using crazy Javascript. On any given page on the site, I’ve counted as many as 27 external scripts and numerous embedded scripts being referenced to achieve interactive objectives. Totally unacceptable.
My goal in 2008 is to find acceptable solutions to these problems while minimizing unnecessary script use.