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Comment · Posted: April 28th, 2008
With the recent talk of JavaScript 1.9 there’s been some confusion as to what exactly that version means – especially in relation to other browsers. Here’s a quick breakdown: IE 6-7 support JScript 5 (which is equivalent to ECMAScript 3, JavaScript 1.5) IE 8 supports JScript 6 (which is equivalent to ECMAScript 3, JavaScript 1.5 […]
Comment · Posted: April 22nd, 2008
Lately I’ve been investigating how Mozilla’s build and test system works (there’s a number of pieces that tend to have a pretty tight integration and I wanted to learn more). I asked developer Ben Hearsum and he kindly obliged. I’ve included the questions and information here in the hopes that others will be able to […]
Comment · Posted: April 22nd, 2008
My summer/fall speaking schedule is starting to solidify – with some major intensity occurring around May. Let me know if you’re going to be at, or around, any of these events – I’d love to meet up. May 17-18 – BarCamp – Boston Don’t have an exact topic chosen yet, possibly something on jQuery. May […]
Comment · Posted: April 16th, 2008
The feature set for Firefox 3 has long been frozen, and committed – it’s well on its way to becoming a polished browser, at this point. It’s time to start looking ahead, specifically, at the feature set of JavaScript in the next version of the browser. Traditionally JavaScript 1.X releases (1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and now […]
Comment · Posted: April 16th, 2008
Dromaeo is the name that I’ve given to the JavaScript performance test suite that I’ve been working on over the past couple months. I was hoping to hold off on this release for another week or two, while I finished up some final details, but since it’s been discovered, and about to hit the Digg […]
Comment · Posted: April 11th, 2008
I just had an epic phone call. I leave my cell phone number on my about me page since I tend to believe in the innate goodness of humans. It has yet to be proven true, thus far, but I’m willing to play the long game. It started with an email from one ‘Dennis Baer’, […]
Comment · Posted: April 10th, 2008
I’ve got another crazy-weird setTimeout/setInterval behavior that you may not know about. However, unlike my previous discovery, this one may actually be useful. Observe the following, seemingly innocuous, code: In particular pay attention to the use of the first argument within the callback function. Running this code in any browser, but a Mozilla based one, […]
Comment · Posted: April 10th, 2008
