In the ready-room for the toolkits talk we all realized that *none* of the toolkit guys had gotten into the Browser Wars talk. Heh.

I agree that SXSW needs more technical presentations. I found many of them to be overly general, and then most the tech talks I wanted to go to were crammed into the last two days.

I still think the professor makes a good point: if it’s not on the slides then it’s not a good point. In other words, perhaps less code and instead more good points should be on the slides. The subtle differences, like you mentioned, are sometimes the most important and the “real” secrets between frameworks. I know why, however, you guys don’t want to talk about the differences.

In all I might not have been impressed, but I never said it wasn’t good. For the target audience it would have sufficed.

SxSW isn’t the most…um…technical audience. John and the rest of us had a hard time trying to figure out what to cover, and eventually we decided to cover what was essentially common-ground amongst the toolkits, in part because the big “secrets” of JS development aren’t about any of the APis but rather the tradeoffs we all make when designing toolkits and frameworks. To that end, there was good discussion of those points which wasn’t captured in the slides.

Regards

Wouldn’t hurt to talk about something *new* instead of something blogged or presented on before.

Am I the only one not impressed?

They’ll be releasing the audio of the talk as a podcast in a couple of weeks.

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