By Christian Heilmann CHAPTER 3I think it’s time to stop looking for solutions that try to tame the Web
and make it more like other environments. Instead, we should embrace
the idea that the future will only bring more diverse playgrounds, and that
we cannot cater to them by being restrictive. So, rather than abstracting
the task of communicating with browsers into a seemingly shorter but
ultimately more complex world of libraries and quick stopgap solutions, I
hope you found some ideas here of how to write a few lines of code tailored
to what browsers already possess.
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Christian Heilmann is Principal Developer Evangelist
of the Mozilla Developer Network and lives currently
in North London, a mixing pot of people from many
cool places. He works to bring technology to people and
people to technology, and when he’s not busy working,
films are his diversion of choice. Christian has a diplo-
ma in German, English, history and astronomy. His
motto is, “Start something and play with it; if you don’t
want to play with it, stop doing it.” His message to read-
ers is to stay hungry and stay inquisitive; something
new is always around the corner.