AJAXWorld Report: Crockford Speaks on "Fixing the Web"
Douglas Crockford gave a keynote at the AJAXWorld East 2008 conference in New York City last week. As ever, Douglas was pulling no punches - his title: 'Can We Fix the Web?' The browser, Douglas says, was behind the times when it was introduced, and it hasn't aged well. It wasn't designed to do the kinds of things we're trying to make it do; we've exploited most of its potential and we're hitting a natural wall now that we've extracted from the browser about as much as is possible.
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote
wrote: Regarding the
previous comment about
"TCP not lining up a
message on one connection
after a file transfer on
another connection." and
the "information in the
article not be...
Brigdson Smith wrote:
remember, Eric Schmidt
was Schwartz's first boss
at Sun - something tells
me if he left Sun, it'd
take four minutes for him
to end up to Google.
Don Dodge wrote: D Cheng,
Of course in-house
systems go down. What I
am saying is that our
psychological need for
control makes us hold
onto teh traditional ways
of doing things.
When systems go down we
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