Definitely the best value conference with the most grassroots atmosphere that I've ever been to. If you can find a library that solves them for you so much the better!
You'd be crazy to miss it.
It offers a replacement for the native browser XMLHttpRequest object that is slower, less fully-featured and does a bunch of crazy extra work behind the scenes.
, Technorati and Google search results pages which don't have those links.
This was a common thread at several conferences, and the recent popularity of Parallels for browser testing barely scratches the surface. If you can find a library that solves them for you so much the better! Overall though it rates extremely well.
The talks really deserved to be seen by more people; if you weren't there you missed out on a treat. Clever, but a bit scary at the same time. Paradoxically, the more time saving abstractions you are using the more you actually have to know. With any luck it will become part of the accepted accessibility benchmark - I know I'll be testing sites with it in the future.
In _javascript_, that means that libraries that mess with Object.
All of Matt's work ended up in vane when the Times stopped publishing the puzzle online just after his system started working.
I'll be writing a lot more about this in the future. Paradoxically, the more time saving abstractions you are using the more you actually have to know. Overall though it rates extremely well.
I'm still using it, although some of the things I liked initially have faded while others have emerged.
Test-first development is certainly an important technique, but the power of interactive development should never be underestimated. The talks really deserved to be seen by more people; if you weren't there you missed out on a treat. Whatever it's doing, it works surprisingly well. I've met people who think that a Web Service is any application that you access over the Web - and it's easy to understand their confusion. Here's hoping other browser manufacturers follow suit.
Both events are fun, friendly and open to all. The slides were on automatic, so the presenters had to be able to time their talk precisely to match up with their slides.
They cover the bases effectively and each one offers something interesting that makes it worth studying in its own right. I gave talks about it at both BarCamp and Euro Foo - it's decentralised single sign-on that works, and it's trivial to implement thanks to really solid libraries for most programming languages.
I fluffed the timing a bit, but the talk seemed to go over well.
The following is all the browser-forking code you need to cover every available major browser.