YUI Theater: Douglas Crockford, "Web Forward"
Douglas keynoted our 2008 Frontend Engineering Summit here at Yahoo last week. In this talk, "Web Forward," he proposes that the standards processes have stagnated, leaving us with an inadequate platform and no orderly mechanism for improving it. The solution, he suggests, is a disorderly mechanism: another browser war. In a new browser war, the web engineering community will face short-term pain but the Web's larger user community, upwards of a billion people, will ultimately benefit as new ideas bubble to the top. The best of the new ideas can then be incorporated into a new generation of standards once they've been vetted by the community and proven in practice.
Slides (PPT) from the talk are available here:
Douglas Crockford: "Web Forward" @ Yahoo! Video
In Case You Missed...
Some other recent videos from the YUI Theater series:
- Eric Miraglia and Matt Sweeney: "YUI3 — A Look Ahead" (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
- Dion Almaer: "Google, Front to Back" (.m4v download)
- Dav Glass: “Rich Text Editing with YUI” (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
- Julien Lecomte: "High Performance Ajax Applications" (YUIBlog | .m4v download)