Maybe these have been up for a while but I just found them today: videos from jsconf posted on blip.tv. Yay! I was happy to find these since I didn’t get to go to jsconf.
I watched Douglas Crockford’s “Really, Javascript?” presentation, among others, which was very interesting. I think he might have given this same talk at TXJS as well. In any case, one point of particular interest is Crockford believes that HTML5 should be scrapped because it’s not fixing XSS security issues. Not sure about my own opinion on this as I would have to confess great ignorance about anything beyond basic XSS stuff. To me it seems like the web is evolving at a stupidly slow pace however (if we’re supposed to be depending on the W3C anyway), and the idea of scrapping what took too fucking long to begin with IMHO seems… dumb. On the other hand it would be pretty lame if web security became way less stable than it is already, and I’m ignorant of the full spectrum here. Anyway, food for thought and more reading/research I need to do obviously.
