“Do Try This at Home: Ajax Bookmarking, Cross-Site Scripting and Other Web 2.0 Browser Hacks” - my talk at Web Expo 2.0 in April

Brian Dillard, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

O'Reilly has booked me to speak at Web 2.0 Expo, which runs April 22-25, 2008 at San Francisco's Moscone West convention center. I'm in the process of changing the session title, so ignore what it says on the website. The new title will be something along the lines of Do Try This at Home: Ajax Bookmarking, Cross-Site Scripting and Other Web 2.0 Browser Hacks.

Regardless of the slug, my talk will focus on how to push the latest and greatest browsers to their limits by peering under the hood and finding the quirks, bugs, hidden APIs and partially implemented draft specs you can use and abuse in your Ajax apps. My thesis is that instead of waiting for the Dojo or Prototype or Moo folks to exploit all the hidden goodies in today's browsers, you can go on a hunting expedition yourself if you have the right tools. With Firefox 3 and IE8 on the horizon, now's the time to start hacking.

Ajax history management will, of course, inform much of my talk, thanks to my stewardship of Really Simple History. But I'll also delve into cross-site-scripting hacks, offline storage and other on-the-bubble technologies.

My talk is scheduled for the final time slot on the final day of the conference: 04/25/2008 at 3:50 p.m. (conference schedule here). Any Agile Ajax readers who are attending the conference and plan to stick around till the bitter end should come and check me out.

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