The WebKit developers recently released a benchmark on pure ECMAScript core performance, SunSpider 0.9. Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame has an analysis of how various browsers perform in The Great Browser JavaScript Showdown. Marcus Bointon has a similar shootout in SunSpider Benchmarks: WebKit Rocks. I of course couldn’t keep from doing my own analysis. [...]

Since Linkdump on ECMAScript 3/4, discussions have continued all over the place. On the documentation and references side, a few more documents have come out of the ECMAScript group. Lars T Hansen have produced A document on the differences between ECMAScript 3 and ECMAScript 4 (which has already gone through one revision, I might add) [...]

So, what was that A quick JS quizz for anybody who think they know regex thing that I posted all about? It was about a flaw, a nonsensical behaviour that the ECMAScript specification makes standard. Let me expand a bit on what ECMAScript 3 does wrong: Capturing submatches in regular expressions are used in at [...]