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Competition breeds change

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Looking back at last two years, I can count to four different browser vendors that have at one time or the other had the fastest scripting engine according to benchmarks I’ve run. Microsoft not included. The performance crown has changed owner at least five times this summer alone. We’ve even seen one engine being all [...]

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Going to Web Directions South

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I’m planning to attend Web Directions South in Sydney next week. All of you that are attending and want to get the latest on Opera 9.6 beta, Opera Dragonfly, the Web Standards Curriculum or any other topic, feel free to come over for a chat! (fyi, this is me – I work as a web [...]

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ActionMonkey killed in favour of TraceMonkey

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

As I noted in my last post, TraceMonkey is turning out to be a really fast scripting engine. Fast to the point, in fact, that Mozilla decided to stop producing ActionMonkey builds. Some technical reasons for this can be found on the Mozilla Wiki: JavaScript:ActionMonkey page. Adobe already seem to have left their strong position [...]

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