Can We Fix the Web? Yahoo!'s Douglas Crockford Says "Yes!" at AJAXWorld
'The web was not intended to be an application platform,' said Douglas Crockford today as he delivered the Opening Keynote at the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, 'and the biggest problems in the browser is security.' For over ten years attacks have been possible through the loopholes offered by the browser. A text that is benign in one content might be dangerous in another, third-party scripts can be embedded into URLs.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
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.
