As the the ECMAScript 4 (JavaScript 2) specification comes closer to its final form, a number of aspects have, already, congealed and able to be disseminated and learned. Specifically, the bug fixes to ECMAScript 3 that are being included in ECMAScript 4 are quite refined at this point. The bug fixes to JavaScript came from […]
Comment · Posted: October 31st, 2007
I’m currently in Tokyo, getting ready to give a couple presentations on JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4/ActionScript 4. It should be a lot of fun – this will probably be the first time that a lot of people hear about these language changes so I’m interested in getting some feedback. (I’ll be posting my “Future of JavaScript” […]
Comment · Posted: October 31st, 2007
Quickly – here’s the slides from the JavaScript Library Overview tutorial that I gave today at the Ajax Experience conference. JavaScript Library Overview This was a detail-heavy talk, please let me know if you have any questions about the libraries, I’ll attempt to clarify them as best as I can.
Comment · Posted: October 24th, 2007
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
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
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
