3 March 2010, JavaScript talk at Yahoo by Douglas Crockford
Crockford is the JavaScript guru, his books show programmers how to write the language in a way that is readable. He said that “Ajax is the world’s dominant application platform.”

He said that “HTML 5 is a big step in the wrong direction, because it is just a lot more DOM.” But he also admits to making bad forecasts in the past.

One thing that was new to me, what the fact that getAttribute() and setAttribute() were a new school way of doing things.