Google Chrome has taken the browser world by storm. It makes for an exciting release, no doubt, especially with a brand new JavaScript engine on the table. However the most important question, to JavaScript developers, is: How will this affect my normal development routine? I’ve done some research, talked to some developers, submitted some bugs […]
Comment · Posted: September 5th, 2008
Update: Ok, so this is more of an issue than I originally surmised – apparently it violates the Terms of Service on a couple sites, especially Digg. I’ve removed Digg support and may have to take the script down at some point. Sorry everyone! Last weekend I decided to play around with the new Ubiquity […]
Comment · Posted: September 4th, 2008
A new JavaScript Engine has hit the pavement running: The new V8 engine (powering the brand-new Google Chrome browser). There are now a ton of JavaScript engines on the market (even when you only look at the ones being actively used in browsers): JavaScriptCore: The engine that powers Safari/WebKit (up until Safari 3.1). SquirrelFish: The […]
Comment · Posted: September 3rd, 2008
About the just-leaked Google Chrome browser: Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs.” […]
Comment · Posted: September 1st, 2008
This week we interviewed the, quite prolific Anne van Kesteren on CSS, XHR, and other Web standards. A breakdown of the contents of the interview, by Dion: Anne van Kesteren is an Opera Software employee who is deeply involved in the standards community. Just take a look at his page on the WHATWG site and […]
Comment · Posted: August 30th, 2008
One thing has always annoyed me about the script tag. Script tags that reference external resources (via the src attribute) are no longer able to execute script embedded within the tag itself. It doesn’t make sense to me that we’re forced to write: when this is so much more elegant: Only one tag – and […]
Comment · Posted: August 26th, 2008
The final version of Firebug 1.2 has been released. The release should be up on the Mozilla Add-ons site today, but it’s also up on GetFirebug.com right now. John J Barton and Jan Odvarko put a ton of work into this release (you may have noticed the rapid-fire series of beta releases last week – […]
Comment · Posted: August 25th, 2008
I’ve been waiting to blog about this for a long time now. A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey. A major goal of the project has been to set JavaScript up to […]
Comment · Posted: August 22nd, 2008
