The Session
Progressive enhancement using Javascript and AJAX
This session will deal with the opportunities you have to enhance standard HTML structures with JavaScript and Ajax to create more responsive web interfaces. Cutting through the hype, you'll also learn about what to avoid and when not to use Ajax.
The Speaker
Christian Heilmann was born in Germany and worked for the Red Cross with a group of disabled people before entering the media as radio news caster and audio producer. Around 1997 he got bored of tubes and speakers and started developing for the web. Since then he worked on BMW, HP, McDonald's, etoys, Visit Britain and other web sites for several agencies and is currently employed by Yahoo! UK as lead web developer, standards evangelist and trainer.
He authored numerous articles for A List Apart, Thinkvitamin and Digital web and wrote "Beginning JavaScript with Dom Scripting and Ajax" for Apress. He co-authored "Web Accessibility" and "Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy" for Friends of Ed.
Christian publishes his thoughts at Wait Till I Come and at icant.co.uk.
