ActionMonkey is Mozilla’s latest foray into a new JavaScript engine. It’s actually an amalgam of two of Mozilla’s current engines: SpiderMonkey (which powers the current Mozilla platform) and Tamarin (the ActionScript engine donated to Mozilla by Adobe). The result will be what is used to run the upcoming Mozilla 2 platform. New hire, Jason Orendorff […]
Comment · Posted: July 23rd, 2007
I’m about to head out the door to go to two conferences back-to-back. If you’re going to be at either one, let me know – and we can meet up! OSCON I’m going to be here Monday and Tuesday, for the tutorial days. I’ll be wearing a Firefox/Mozilla shirt and will be generally promoting JavaScript […]
Comment · Posted: July 22nd, 2007
It is with much happiness that I think I can finally say, without seeming like a fool, that: “JavaScript Getters and Setters are now prevalent enough to become of actual interest to JavaScript developers.” Wow, I’ve been waiting a long time to be able to say that. I want to start by giving a whirlwind […]
Comment · Posted: July 18th, 2007
I just got back from giving a presentation at the Boston Ruby Group on jQuery. You can find the contents of the slides below. There’s going to be a video of the talk, so I’ll post that too, when it’s ready. Files View Presentation Sample Code Files
Comment · Posted: July 10th, 2007
This weekend I took a big step in upping the ante for JavaScript as a Language. At some point last Friday evening I started coding and didn’t stop until sometime mid-Monday. The result is a good-enough browser/DOM environment, written in JavaScript, that runs on top of Rhino; capable of running jQuery, Prototype, and MochiKit (at […]
Comment · Posted: July 9th, 2007
For my work at Mozilla, I’m gearing up to talk more about JavaScript 2.0. This involves a lot of things (from reading up on the specification, looking at non-web-based uses of JavaScript, to teaching myself SML). Perhaps most challengingly, however, is the struggle that I’ve been facing to quantify and understand the shifts being made […]
Comment · Posted: July 3rd, 2007
Fantastic news: The first reference implementation of ECMAScript 4 has just been released by the committee. (ECMAScript 4 is going to be the basis for the upcoming JavaScript 2 language.) The implementation includes releases for Windows, OSX (ppc), OSX (Intel), and Raw Source; written in the functional language, Standard ML, specifically using the Standard ML […]
Comment · Posted: June 9th, 2007
In case you haven’t been following the progress being made on JavaScript 1.8 here’s a quick overview of what’s already landed in the latest Firefox 3 nightlies. So far, three main features have landed, with a few more to come. In general, this release will be relatively ‘light’, mostly attempting to bring the current JavaScript […]
Comment · Posted: May 30th, 2007
