NEW YORK -- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) (define) and a senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), is convinced that the Web is broken.

During a keynote at the AjaxWorld conference here, Crockford launched a polemic against the Web as it is exists today.

"The question is not should we fix the Web but can we," Crockford asked the crowded conference room at the Roosevelt Hotel. "The browser was not state of the art when it was introduced. It was intended as a document presentation platform and is not intended for applications."

Crockford argued that browsers were not designed to do all "all of this Ajax stuff" and the fact that Ajax works is because people found ways to deploy Ajax (define) in spite of programming tool's limitations. Ajax development is unnecessarily difficult these days because of a major problem: security.

"The browser is not a safe programming environment. It is inherently insecure."

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