Talk show for the Open Web

featuring Dion Almaer, John Resig, and Alex Russell

Archive for August 2008

Episode 3: Anne van Kesteren on CSS, XHR, and other Web standards

Anne van Kesteren is an Opera Software employee who is deeply involved in the standards community. Just take a look at his page on the WHATWG site and you will see the many specifications that he is actively working on, such as:

access-control
XMLHttpRequest
XMLHttpRequest2
cssom-view
css3-mediaqueries

He is also interested in many other specifications such as offline Web apps, the [...]

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Episode 2: Brendan Eich and Arun Ranganathan on ECMAScript Harmony

I have been a little worried about JavaScript, the language that you know…. powers the Web client right now.
Fortunately, it appears that a bunch of the engineers on the ECMAScript standards groups came together in Oslo and actually make a good effort at coming together.
This is huge news, so we asked Brendan Eich and Arun [...]

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Open Web Podcast Episode 1: HTML 5 news, Web Workers, W3C Selectors, and Dojo happenings

Welcome to the inaugural episode of a new podcast to cover news, happenings, and our opinions on the Open Web (download the Open Web Podcast episode one directly or subscribe to it, including via iTunes). When I say “our” I am talking about the founding podcasters: Alex Russell, John Resig, and myself. It is a [...]

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