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Alex Russell

Project Lead, Dojo Toolkit & Director of R&D, SitePen

Alex Russell
Alex Russell served as Project Lead for the Dojo Toolkit from 2004 to 2008 and is Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experience, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he serves as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality, open source, JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms. Prior to joining SitePen, Russell was a senior engineer at JotSpot and Informatica where he helped both companies build highly interactive, web interfaces. His earlier, open source involvement included stints as editor of the OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and primary author of the netWindows DHTML toolkit.

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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 »
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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

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Alex Russell 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

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Alex Russell 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.






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