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Alex Russell, TweetSoftware Engineer at Google
Biography: Alex Russell
Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google, working on Chrome, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform. Alex serves on the JavaScript standard committee (ECMA TC39) and is active in the design of many new web APIs. Prior to joining Google he contributed to the development of the Dojo Toolkit. He's fighting IE 6 so you don't have to
Twitter:@slightlylate
Blog: http://infrequently.org
Presentation: TweetThe Future Is Integrated: A Coherent Vision For Web API Evolution
Why does WebIDL treat JavaScript like a visitor from an alien civilization? Why does DOM provide APIs which naturally belong in JavaScript itself? Why do scripters have such an uneasy relationship to semantics? Why can't we all just get along? This talk examines the state of the various debates which are shaping the future of the platform as a real platform -- or not.