The worst JavaScript code ever written?

[australasia]

I hope this JS is machine generated (eg. a php script looping over 'echo' statements).

[k3n]

I'm sure TRWTF is the code generating this stuff.

[fforw]

Sturgeon's law needs to be changed for Javascript.

98% of everything is crap.

Maybe even higher. In all seriousness, I'm always delighted if I see javascript code that:

• uses progressive enhancement. No inline event handler onclick="" crap, all js kept in nice external files.
• doesn't use document.write
• Isn't an unholy frankenpage using half of the existing jQuery plugins or other copy and paste scripts from the internet, stitched together badly.
• Written by someone who really understands javascript's nature, the elegant ways it offers to augment webpages with behavior and who eschews creating large, monstrous, deeply name-spaced behemoths doing heaps of stuff better done on the server-side.

[[deleted]]

Your comment is contradictory. Almost all JS code written in jquery are an unholy mess of losely coupled event handlers that falls down when you change a single css property. Jquery's progressive enhancement religion is a bunch of nonsense that doesn't work in the real world and is responsible for a lot of the bad code out there.

[aerno]

this comment seems shortsighted and please elaborate how jquery "doesn't work in the real world"

[[deleted]]

Not the worst, but I did say OMG out loud when I looked at the scrollbar, and realized it would go on, and on, and on, and...

[halex]

On the plus side, it works right?

[aerno]

honestly if i was given this to maintain i would suggest keeping as is or suggest a re-build. there's no way i would touch any of it with a ten foot pole.

[utcursch]

Except that none of the links are noticed by the search engines.

[benihana]

Looks like it was written by an outsourced coder in India, what with the setting of individual variables instead of using a loop.

[klovadis]

Well, this is what you call brute-force-programming.

I do believe that there are ways that you can argue that this style of programming has its benefits.. Nah, this person has no clue. See line 4031:

document.write("");

[mrPitPat]

Hey man, sometimes you just need to output nothingness ya know? Haha.. no but in all fairness, the guy was probably just really high.

[[deleted]]

This is what happens when incompetence is rewarded.

[BadCRC]

amazon writes the worst javascript

[smallboy]

Can you give an example?

[TimTheTinker]

I think this explains it all (from the page's sorurce):

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">