Gears and the Mashup Problem

Google Tech Talks
September, 20 2007

ABSTRACT

Mashups are the most interesting innovation in software development in decades. Unfortunately, the browser's security model did not anticipate this development, so mashups are not safe if there is any confidential information in the page. Since virtually every page has at least some confidential information in it, this is a big problem. Google Gears may lead to the solution.

Speaker: Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is the world's foremost living authority on JavaScript. He is an architect with Yahoo's Ajax Strike Force. He is the founder of two startups, and was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd., Director of New Media at
Paramount, and...

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• google
• howto
• gears
• mashup
• problem

[dniry76]

@horneyvirus: Oh wow... just 1 comment... Not too many of us geeks out here ;-)

Yeah, this guy is really sharp. Solid advice and best practices. If you haven't watched them already, you should see his series on Yahoo video. He talks about stuff like "parasitic" inheritence... really interesting. I'm just beginning to really dig into JavaScript and realize, just like he says, how misunderstood a programming language JavaScript is...

[horneyvirus]

God reincarnate. Sadly nobody listens to him.

[kalekold]

I listen. :)