Abe Fettig
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
Software Engineer for JotSpot, Inc.
Abe Fettig is a software developer. He specializes in making it easier and more fun to communicate and share information over the Internet. Abe has been building web and Internet appications since 1998.
Abe is currently employed as a software engineer for JotSpot, helping develop the world's first (and best) application Wiki. He also maintains the Hep and Yarn open source projects, which make it easier to transfer and manage messages between blogs, email, and rss using the Twisted networking framework. His first book, Twisted Network Programming Essentials, was published by O'Reilly in 2005.
Presentations
Where to use WYSIWYG
The concept of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing is good: you can see what you're doing as you do it. So how come most WYSIWYG editors make you want to scream “give me back my textarea!“? This talk will show where WYSIWYG succeeds and fails, explain how browser-based WYSIWYG editing works, demonstrate why WYSIWYG needs Ajax to provide a great editing experience, and teach you how to use the Dojo editor widget to easily add WYSIWYG editing to your applications.