why JavaScript coding standards are important to us.

1. 1 © 2005 Nokia V1-Filename.ppt / yyyy-mm-dd / Initials Why do we need coding standards?

2. 2 © 2005 Nokia V1-Filename.ppt / yyyy-mm-dd / Initials Broken windows theory. “One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment—a sense that the powers that be don’t care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short space of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner’s desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.”

3. 3 © 2005 Nokia V1-Filename.ppt / yyyy-mm-dd / Initials Examples of broken windows in javascript : Missing semi-colons. Missing commas. Undefined variables Console & alert debug statements Explicit equality checks As a matter of priority we need to make sure these basic errors are not checked in to the codebase.