The Reality of Third-Party JavaScript
It sounds too good to be true and probably for good reason. You add a single line of code to each of your pages and it will magically do anything including serve ads, providing user and marketing analytics, displaying a widget, or even go so far as handling some major site functionality. But what impact does this "simple" script include have on your site's performance, security or user experience?
This session will look at the benefits and the risks with including third-party JavaScript, provide a checklist to identify and address such risks, and look at what the future holds in this area.
About Mark Meeker
Mark Meeker is the Principal UI Engineer for Orbitz Worldwide. At Orbitz, he leads the development of the presentation layer for their family of travel websites around the globe. He focuses on building interactive and usable interfaces which follow web standards and are accessible. He is a client-side developer at heart, but spends a lot of his time finding better ways for the presentation layer to play well inside large web applications.
Previously, Mark was Technology Director for Critical Mass where he led site development and architecture for numerous clients. He got his start on the web at Encyclopaedia Britannica by helping to launch Britannica.com. He has an undergraduate degree from St. Norbert College and earned a Masters in Software Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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