Author Extensible Web Manifesto Team

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Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google focusing enabling better web applications. Prior to Google he built JavaScript libraries used by startups and enterprises alike.

Yehuda Katz is developer at and Co-founder of Tilde Inc, a member of the Ember.js, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams and co-author of best-selling jQuery in Action and Rails 3 in Action.

Both Alex and Yehuda serve on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) and the JavaScript standard committee (ECMA TC39).

Brian Kardell is a front-end engineer at The Apollo Group, chair of the W3C Extensible Web Community Group, co-author of HitchJS and a member of the W3C CSS Working Group (JQuery).

Extensible Web Manifesto Team wrote

Laying The Groundwork For Extensibility

November 13, 2013 — After a decade of JavaScript library work, the progressive-enhancement revolution, the advent of polyfills, and the effort to birth the “Web Components” and “Shadow DOM” specifications have taught us surprising lessons: In every period, being able to use features in both high- and low-level forms has always been desirable. HTML is great, until it isn’t. And JavaScript-only has predictable drawbacks. Thinking that there is a “right way” to build new Web features is seductive. Turns out, it’s not that simple. Read more…