Do Try This at Home: Ajax Bookmarking, Cross-site Scripting, and Other Web 2.0 Browser Hacks: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, April 22

Do Try This at Home: Ajax Bookmarking, Cross-site Scripting, and Other Web 2.0 Browser Hacks

Brian Dillard (Pathfinder Associates)

3:50pm Friday, 04/25/2008

Development
Location: 2003

Presentation: Do Try This at Home_ Ajax Bookmarking, Cross-site Scripting, and Other Web 2_0 Browser Hacks Presentation [PDF]

This session will examine the ways in which standards bodies, browser vendors and library/plug-in authors are shaping the future of our foundational web technologies – and how individual developers can participate in that process.

The current playing field for web technologies

Web pages vs. web applications
IE8 vs. Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3.1 vs. Opera 9.5
Standards vs. “embrace and extend”
WC3 vs. WHATWG
Ajax vs. RIAs
Open Web vs. Closed Web
Facebook vs. Open Social
Walled gardens vs. ecosystems

Where do I fit in? What’s the right thing to do?

The future of the web lies in the tension between emerging “standards” and actual standards

Draft specs take forever, but live implementations are being carved out one feature at a time

HTML5/XHTML2
CSS3
CSS Layout
JavaScript 2
CSS DOM
DOM storage/Client database storage

Many exciting technologies emerged in the wild, then gained legitimacy xmlHttpRequest

DOMContentLoaded
The selector mechanism
SVG and Canvas
Ajax Navigation
Microformats

Who will determine what tomorrow’s web looks like?

The role of Ajax libraries
The role of browser extensions and plugins (Google Gears, Mozilla Prism)
The role of proprietary runtimes (Flex and Silverlight)
The role of developers

So what can I do?

Comment on draft specs
Participate actively in open-source projects (Gears, etc.)
Get down and dirty with the latest and greatest browsers

Tools for participating

Web research & RSS: Become a beat reporter
Browser vendor websites – yes, even Microsoft’s
Debuggers for everyone – not just Firebug

Case studies

Offline storage

Client database storage/DOM storage
Dojo Offline
Google Gears

Ajax history and bookmarking

Really Simply History
dsHistory
IE8 Ajax navigation

Cross-site scripting

xssinterface
Firefox 3 cross-window messaging

Final thoughts: It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

Brian Dillard

Pathfinder Associates

Brian J. Dillard joined Pathfinder Associates in August 2007. His title: RIA Evangelist. After 12 years of focusing on the view layer of large consumer webapps, his role at Pathfinder Associates is one of research, development and ongoing commentary. He prototypes new rich UI features; contributes to open-source and client projects; and otherwise helps build Pathfinder’s competency in the Ajax world. A frequent contributor to the Agile Ajax blog, he is also the project lead on Really Simple History, a JavaScript library for Ajax bookmark and back-button management. Prior to his current assignment, Brian spent significant chunks of time at Orbitz, United Airlines, Reflect.com and Townsend Analytics, Ltd. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from Michigan State University. Brian is passionate about JavaScript but also makes room in his heart for cycling, comic books, science fiction, tattoos and other pastimes befitting a computer nerd.

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Brian Dillard

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