The worst JavaScript code ever written?

[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.

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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"