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Original post provide by Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINEDouglas Crockford gave a keynote at the AJAXWorld East 2008 conference in New York City last week. As ever, Douglas was pulling no punches - his title: ‘Can We Fix the Web?’ The browser, Douglas says, was behind the times when it was introduced, and it hasn’t aged well. It wasn’t designed to do the kinds of things we’re trying to make it do; we’ve exploited most of its potential and we’re hitting a natural wall now that we’ve extracted from the browser about as much as is possible.
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