Academic research on browsers, frontend development, and debugging

1 · Paul Irish · Sept. 13, 2012, 3:45 p.m.
University-level education has never really touched too directly on what we do as frontend developers. I know I was self-taught in the ways of the browser, as were all of my friends. Luckily the sort of webapp work we do these days is quite sophisticated so those CS graduates bring much of the great ideas to the JavaScript community. (Alex Sexton has been a personal inspiration here) Early last year, something clicked in my head when I saw this video: Crossing the Chasm: Pitching Security Resea...