Schedule: Ajax sessions

In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. My intention here is to expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable, and maintainable. Read more.

Best Practices Deployed to Performance-tune Large Ajax Applications Read more.

An experimental study of the relative performances of a traditional HTML application and a set of comparable AJAX applications that use several different update data methodologies: partial HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV (comma separated values). A wide range of response sizes are included. Advantages and disadvantages of each are discussed, as are applicability in special cases such as mobile clients. Read more.

Web Applications (and widgets) have historically had little or no access to the device and the user's data, making it a safe, but boring haven. This is about to change. This presentation will focus on securely allowing access to the device and its data through natively integrated components and native JavaScript plugins. Read more.

In this session the Access Control specification and its relationship to XMLHttpRequest will be explained and how these will impact the Web. Read more.