Alex Russell
Project Lead, Dojo Toolkit & Director of R&D, SitePen
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Please Vote
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2012
If you’re a web developer, please vote in Paul Irish’s poll on browser support. The larger the population that votes, the more we can trust the answers, and the data is critical to making sense of how we collectively think about browser suppmore »Class Warfare
Posted Monday, April 23, 2012
And so we’re at an impasse. At the last TC39 meeting, after spending what felt like an eternity on the important topic of UTF-16 encoding, the last day hastily ended with two topics that simply could not be any more urgent: can we get something domore »Hoisted From The Comments
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Some stuff is too good to leave in the shadows. On my Bedrock post, James Hatfield writes in with a chilling point, but one which I’ve been making for a long while: ”every year we’re throwing more and more JS on top of the web” The way things aremore »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.
