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 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.
About 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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