Posts Tagged ‘javascript engine

Linux running in a JavaScript-based emulator JavaScript never seems to get any respect. It’s not a real programming language, detractors complain, it’s just some script language that runs in the web browser. We’re not sure what makes JavaScript less “real” to some, but thanks to today’s web browsers, JavaScript has become a very powerful language. [...]

This page on Actual JavaScript Engine Performance by Douglas Crockford is really interesting. For bonus points, read the JSMeter paper Douglas links to. It’s absolutely true that we should be testing real application performance rather than benchmarking made up scenarios, and it’s good to see some performance data from JSLint. I think I’m mainly impressed [...]

Right now, the server software uses the JavaScript engine from Google’s Chrome. Mozilla is transplanting Firefox’s into Node.js. Originally posted at Deep Tech Go to Source

Mozilla released Firefox 4 for Android to mixed reviews. The above video makes it seem pretty nice, but there are more than a few complaints – among the biggest – a lack of Flash support. “Firefox for mobile allows users to take the Firefox experience they love everywhere and minimizes typing with features like tabbed [...]


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