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.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
