Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress. One of the things I've poured myself into this year -- with a merry band of contributors including Domenic Denicola, Anne van Kesteren, Jake Archibald, Mark Miller, Erik Arvidsson, and many others -- has been a design for Promises that DOM and JS can both adopt. There's a (very) long history of Promises, Deferreds, and various other