The concepts of negative externality and moral hazard describe situations where one person can impose costs on another without paying for it, often resulting in less-than optimal outcomes for everyone. That sounds a lot like what’s going on with organizations that won’t upgrade from IE6 to me. Lets quickly consider both sides of the browser [...]
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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 Web Platform Team at Google London. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions.
As part of the Chrome team I serve on ECMA TC39 (the standards body for JavaScript).
My aim is to make the web a better platform and to the extent that I can keep politics and economics from creeping in, that's what this blog is about, as in my public speaking.
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