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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