Videos tagged with Webdev

In this 2007 presentation at Yahoo!, which is meant to be the beginning of a three-course sequence (followed by "Theory of the DOM" and then "Advanced JavaScript"), Douglas Crockford explores not only the language as it is today but also how the language came to be the way it is. Note: there's a title at the opening that claims this is "Part 1 of 4", but this video contains all four parts edite...

In this talk from Yahoo!'s internal Frontend Engineering Summit in 2007, Douglas Crockford discusses the importance of quality in software engineering. "I'm going to cover the whole range of human emotion," he begins, "from the heights of creative ecstasy all the way down to the depths of technical despair. And, as you'd expect, we're going to start with the latter."

In an internal tech talk at Yahoo! in 2006, Douglas Crockford delves into the sordid history of the DOM: that "vast source of incompatibility, pain and misery" that frontend engineers love to hate.

In this presentation (the third of a three-part series) Douglas Crockford looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications. He compares familiar constructs like the Pseudoclassical Pattern with more unique patterns like the Parasitic Pattern that (he argues) run more "with the grain" of JavaScript.

In this 2006 talk at Yahoo!, Senior YUI Engineer Matt Sweeney articulates his philosophy on frontend architecture.

In this 2006 talk, Iain Lamb, co-founder of iconic webmail startup Oddpost and then part of Yahoo's DHTML/Ajax Evanglism team, describes the set of skills and tools hackers need to hack in the emerging world of open APIs and web services.

In 2006, Lars Knoll and George Staikos from the KHTML project visited Yahoo! to give a talk on the history of KHTML and Konqueror and the connection between those projects and Apple's open-source WebKit (which was built upon KHTML and announced in January of 2003 as the foundation of Apple's Safari browser).

The day after Firebug 1.0 was released in 2007, its author Joe Hewitt stopped by Yahoo! to debut the new features.

On February 28, 2007, four estimable figures from the world of browser development and frontend engineering took the stage at Yahoo! for an event entitled "Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs." The goal was to get representatives from the IE team, Mozilla, Opera, and Apple's Safari team together to talk about the reawakening of browser development after the long slumber of the IE6 era —...

Doug Geoffray, developer of early Macintosh voice applications and founder of GW Micro, stopped by Yahoo! in 2007 to tell us about the history and current state of screen-reader support in software, including the nature of the current challenges we face developing screen-reader-accessible dynamic web pages.