Ajax has been stupendously successful in capturing the imaginations of webdevs in part because of the backlog of demand for better interactivity in browser-based apps, but also because it’s stone-simple to implement. One of the biggest problems facing the adoption of Comet is that it’s, by definition, not as simple. It’s usually not possible to [...]
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What’s All This Then?
I'm Alex Russell, a web developer working on Chrome, Chrome for Android, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform at Google London. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions. Through the Chrome team I serve in various standards-facing capacities, most-directly as a Google representative to ECMA TC39 (the standards body for JavaScript).
My goal is to make the web suck less and to the extent that I can keep politics and economics from creeping in, that's what this blog is about.
Other facets available upon HTTP request: twitter, facebook, flickr, and quora. Expect much less self-restraint there.
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