Alex Russell
Project Lead, Dojo Toolkit & Director of R&D, SitePen
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Vendor Prefixes Are A Rousing Success
Posted Friday, November 18, 2011
tl;dr version: Henri Sivonen’s arguments against vendor prefixing for CSS properties focus on harm without considering value, which in turn has caused him to come to a non-sensical set of conclusions and recommendations. Progress is a process, andmore »Function-ality
Posted Thursday, October 6, 2011
I’m sitting here in Derek Featherstone’s amazing a11y talk at Fronteers and I feel like I need to follow up the last post with a quick primer on the zen of function for (both of) the spec authors who read this blog. The reason it’s offmore »Real Constructors & WebIDL Last Call
Posted Monday, October 3, 2011
For those who haven’t been following the progress of WebIDL — and really, how could you not? An IDL? For the webmore »Presentations
Dojo's Standards Heresy and the Rise of Pragmatism on the Open Web
The web standards crowd is hurting you, your users, and the Open Web. While other speakers will paint a rosy picture of standards, this talk will explore the dark side of standards and explain why Ajax (nee DHTML) developers have long chuckled quietly whemore »Dojo Cookbook
Recipes for developing and optimizing large applications with dojo.more »Dojo's Standards Heresy and the Rise of Pragmatism on the Open Web
By Alex Russell
The web standards crowd is hurting you, your users, and the Open Web. While other speakers will paint a rosy picture of standards, this talk will explore the dark side of standards and explain why Ajax (nee DHTML) developers have long chuckled quietly when well-meaning developers explain how semantic markup and CSS will save us.
We'll also talk about how browser vendors have let us down, why Ajax toolkits shouldn't be necessaray, and how the web development community can clear the collective haze of web standards and semantic web zealotry.
Dojo Cookbook
By Alex Russell
Recipes for developing and optimizing large applications with dojo.
In this talk we'll touch on a variety of dojo topics including using dojo's RPC mechanisms, Deferreds and DeferredLists, creating Dojo builds and other useful techniques for making large single page applications perform well in a browser environment.
