2. Who invited this guy?
• Ben Vinegar
• Front-end Engineer at Disqus
• Former team lead at FreshBooks
• Somewhere in there, Guestlist
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3. • dis·cuss • dĭ-skŭs'
• Distributed commenting platform
• Served on over 300k sites
• ~200m unique visitors per month
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17. jQuery conflicts
• What if it already exists? (Likely)
• Use $.noConflict
• Does more than let you use Dojo,
Mootools, Prototype ...
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38. easyXDM
• Exposes a postMessage-like interface to
communicate with windows/frames
• But backwards compatible with older
browsers using whatever-works
• http://easyxdm.net
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47. Play it safe with iframes
• Don’t expose vulnerable actions on the
website host
• Hide them behind an iframe
• Restrict endpoint requests to originate
from iframe
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50. Blocking scripts
• You can’t guarantee users will put your
snippet at the end of the page
• Their mistake, but your app’s reputation
• Difficult to change later
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51. Version like a pro
• You will inevitably have multiple versions
• Can you serve both at the same time, on
the same page?
• Getting people to upgrade is hard
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52. Thanks
• Ben Vinegar
• @bentlegen | http://benv.ca
• Disqus is hiring
http://disqus.com/jobs
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