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Herding Code: Episode 17: Browser Roundup
This week Jon leads a discussion on the new crop of browsers: What's new in Google Chrome Comparison of Javascript engines What does crazy-fast Javascript mean? Is Webkit taking over? Why's Firefox sticking with Gecko? IE8 Compatibility Mode - Will it save us ...
- Running time
- 0h55m
- File size
- 32.00MB
Episode synopsis
This week Jon leads a discussion on the new crop of browsers:
- What’s new in Google Chrome
- Comparison of Javascript engines
- What does crazy-fast Javascript mean?
- Is Webkit taking over? Why’s Firefox sticking with Gecko?
- IE8 Compatibility Mode - Will it save us from IE6?
- Is it time for the IE team to try “File/New/Browser”?
- Do web standards mean anything when IE doesn’t support them?
- Where does Silverlight fit in?
- Objective-J
Links:
- The Google Chrome Comic
- John Resig’s Javascript Performance Rundown
- Why Mozilla’s sticking with Gecko
- The Acid 2 Test
- E4X (ECMAScript for XML)
- Jon’s post (circa 2005) asking when IE would support E4X
- New Javascript features in versions 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8
- IE8 Beta 2 Developer Toolbar
- Objective-J (Objective-C for Javascript)
- Dare’s comparison of new browser features
- IE8 Beta 2 Compatibility View
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Herding Code 17: Browser Roundup
Events coming up
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Dec
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December Silicon Valley Ruby Meetup
Moffett Field, United States
In a World of Middleware, Who Needs Monolithic Applications? by Jon Crosby With Rack emerging as the standard for composing web applications and services, most recently with Rails adoption, an architectural shift is taking place. Learn how to create next generation web services by reusing existing Rack middleware and supplementing with your own components and micro-frameworks like Sinatra. Bio : Jon likes music, the Open Web, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Objective-C, JavaScript and coffee.
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