Sneaky 2
Sooner.
Comment · Posted: October 11th, 2007
John Resig
Mozilla
Future of Firefox and JavaScript
I just finished giving a presentation at the Future of Web Apps conference, here in London. Thanks to everyone who attended – I hope I didn’t sound too sleep deprived! In this talk I covered new features coming in Firefox (that should be interesting to developers) and talk a little bit about how the JavaScript […]
Comment · Posted: October 3rd, 2007
Freeing the Grid
Recently, Mozilla had the opportunity to help do something quite new and free a piece of JavaScript software, namely the TurboAjax TurboGrid. The code has been freed under the auspices of the Dojo Foundation, becoming a new Dojo Grid component. From a technological perspective, the grid is quite robust, offering a number of features, including […]
Comment · Posted: September 19th, 2007
JavaScript Engine Speeds
Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time analyzing the speed of pure JavaScript engines, looking at how well they perform and what their particular strengths and weaknesses are. To start with, I analyzed the bleeding-edge code from: Rhino Spidermonkey (Firefox 3) Tamarin (Firefox 4?) JavaScriptCore (Safari 3) Right now I’m only looking at pure, […]
Comment · Posted: September 17th, 2007
Building a JavaScript Library
This past Friday I gave my first Google Tech Talk on Building a JavaScript Library. I was invited to speak by Jon Wiley and had a chance to speak with a bunch of people on the User Experience team at Google (and, of course, try the always-popular food). Building a JavaScript Library [Video]Building a JavaScript […]
Comment · Posted: August 21st, 2007
SXSW 2008 Voting
It’s that time of year again – voting for the 2008 SXSW Interactive panels has opened up. This year I played it smart and actually got my panel submissions in on time. I’ve got two new talks planned, so if you’re interested in seeing me present (or are interested in reading the slides, and hearing […]
Comment · Posted: August 20th, 2007
First JS Test Suite Bug Caught
Late last night, a commit to the Mozilla trunk caused the tree to “go orange” (signaling that, while the build was successful, a test had failed). Upon inspection it was determined that one of the recently-integrated Prototype tests was failing. This is particularly interesting because this is the first time that one of the foreign […]
Comment · Posted: August 10th, 2007
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