Simon Willison’s Weblog

Firefox 3.5 for developers. It’s out today, and the feature list is huge. Highlights include HTML 5 drag ’n’ drop, audio and video elements, offline resources, downloadable fonts, text-shadow, CSS transforms with -moz-transform, localStorage, geolocation, web workers, trackpad swipe events, native JSON, cross-site HTTP requests, text API for canvas, defer attribute for the script element and TraceMonkey for better JS performance!

# 30th June 2009, 6:08 pm / firefox, html5, dragndrop, audio, video, offlineresources, fonts, textshadow, csstransforms, localstorage, geolocation, webworkers, json, crossdomain, canvas, tracemonkey, javascript, performance, browsers, mozilla, firefox35

TraceMonkey. Brendan Eich has been preaching the performance benefits of tracing and JIT for JavaScript on the conference circuit for at least a year, and the results from the first effort to be merged in to Mozilla core are indeed pretty astounding.

# 22nd August 2008, 11:13 pm / john-resig, tracemonkey, javascript, mozilla, performance, brendan-eich, jit