http://simonwillison.net/2009-06-30T18:08:34+00:00Simon Willison2009-06-30T18:08:34+00:002009-06-30T18:08:34+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/30/firefox/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.5_for_developers">Firefox 3.5 for developers</a></strong></p> 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! <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audio">audio</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/browsers">browsers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/canvas">canvas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crossdomain">crossdomain</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csstransforms">csstransforms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dragndrop">dragndrop</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox35">firefox35</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fonts">fonts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geolocation">geolocation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/localstorage">localstorage</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/offlineresources">offlineresources</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/textshadow">textshadow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tracemonkey">tracemonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webworkers">webworkers</a></p>

2008-08-22T23:13:57+00:002008-08-22T23:13:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/22/tracemonkey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/tracemonkey/">TraceMonkey</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brendan-eich">brendan-eich</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jit">jit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-resig">john-resig</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tracemonkey">tracemonkey</a></p>