[PRL] Fwd: TALK:Thursday 7-27-06 FOXHOLES: News From The Front Line Of The Browser

[Mitchell Wand]

Interesting talk by a guy whose earlier work I liked...  --Mitch

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FOXHOLES: News From The Front Line Of The Browser Wars
Speaker: Robert O'Callahan
Speaker Affiliation: Novell Corp., Auckland
Host: Daniel Jackson
Host Affiliation: MIT-CSAIL

Date: 7-27-2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Refreshments: 1:45 PM
Location: 32-G7th Floor Lounge

Once viewed by some as technologically stagnant, the World Wide Web is being
refreshed by renewed competition in Web browsers and the popularization of
advanced "AJAX" Web applications. Yet the Web's future is darkened by severe
security threats and competition from technologies that seek to replace the
Web as we know it. As a contributor to Firefox, I will discuss challenges
facing our project: competition from Internet Explorer and other browsers;
changes to fundamental assumptions about code-level security
vulnerabilities; sustaining and evolving a complex and fragile codebase; and
the successes and failures of our tools and processes. Looking forwards, I
will discuss our efforts to keep the Web vital, in concert with like-minded
browser vendors and standards organizations, by enhancing the Web platform
with vector and 3D graphics, offline Web applications, accessibility, richer
typography and layout, enhancements to the Javascript language, efforts to
improve cross-browser compatibility, and more. I will talk about why
everyone should care and what people can do to help.

BIO:
Robert O'Callahan obtained his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University with the
help of Daniel Jackson and Jeannette Wing. After three and half years at IBM
Watson working on programming languages and tools by day and Mozilla by
night, he volunteered for full-time duty in the browser wars, with the
substantial fringe benefit of returning to the most lovely country in the
world.

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For more information please contact: Maria Rebelo, 617-253-5895,
mr at csail.mit.edu

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