Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts tagged: webdevelopment

JavaScript in Firefox 3.1 will be wicked fast
John Resig of jQuery fame, has a post about a huge performance boost coming to Firefox 3.1: TraceMonkey. TraceMonkey, Resig explains, uses a computing technique known as trace trees (PDF) which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s current rendering engine. What does this mean? As Resig explains: It means that JavaScript is no longer confined [...] [24 Aug 2008]
On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it
For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I remember [...] [25 Jan 2008]