Daily question: Browser Wars, the good old days?
Sat, Oct 18, 08
Douglas Crockford, senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!, father of JSON and the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts, gave a keynote address at the 2008 Frontend Engineering Summit at Yahoo! last week.
In this must-see video, Crockford meticulously outlined the history and the cost of painfully slow, still inconsistent, security-blind and pork-laden standardization processes. After stating:
The only thing worse
than where we were
is where we are.
he reached what will certainly be a disturbing conclusion for many “standards” advocates:
As counterintuitive as it may seem, for the web to move forward is what we need a new Browser War?
