Clipboard founder and CEO, Gary Flake recently delivered a keynote on Bookmarklets vs. Applcations at the O’Reilly Fluent conference in San Francisco.
In his keynote, Gary talks about how with the advent of highly performant JavaScript engines, the Clipboard bookmarklet has evolved from a simple JavaScript function into an outright application framework that includes build and bootup processes, cross-site messaging, style sandboxing, and code reuse across multiple applications. Gary digs deeper into how the Clipboard bookmarklet addresses challenges such as correctly extracting subset of elements on web pages, robustly rendering UI in a hostile environment and securing API calls for cross domain posting.
You can find the keynote slides after the break.