Eric Miraglia, one of the world's leading experts on "advanced JavaScript utilities and widgets" works for Yahoo!'s Presentation Platform Team. He plays a critical role in helping product teams realize their forward-reaching development goals. He also teaches regular classes for Yahoo web developers. Eric has been involved in the creation of social web applications since 1995, when he began developing interactive writing spaces for universities; his Speakeasy Studio & Café was used by more than 100 universities between 1997 and 2004. Since 2003, he has been a part of Yahoo!'s web development community. When he's not trying to convince pixels to do what they're told, he can sometimes be found at Stanford University, where he teaches writing as a visiting lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in the strange hybrid discipline of Technology and Rhetoric.
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.
The browser has serious problems:
It’s insecure: Once an attacker gets a foothold on the page, it can
read the page, load additional scripts, make additional requests of the
server, and send information anywhere in the world. The browser fails to
prevent any of these things. It suffers f... (more)
Yahoo! User Interface Blog
The YUI development team has released version 2.5.2; you can download the new
release from SourceForge or configure your implementation using the YUI
Configurator.
This is a focused release that addresses several key bugs while providing
support for Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5, both of which are expected to reach GA
this summer.
Key points for YUI 2.5.2:
Anticipating... (more)
Eric Miraglia, one of the world's leading experts on "advanced JavaScript utilities and widgets" works for Yahoo!'s Presentation Platform Team. He plays a critical role in helping product teams realize their forward-reaching development goals. He also teaches regular classes for Yahoo web developers. Eric has been involved in the creation of social web applications since 1995, when he began developing interactive writing spaces for universities; his Speakeasy Studio & Café was used by more than 100 universities between 1997 and 2004. Since 2003, he has been a part of Yahoo!'s web development community. When he's not trying to convince pixels to do what they're told, he can sometimes be found at Stanford University, where he teaches writing as a visiting lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in the strange hybrid discipline of Technology and Rhetoric.
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