Category Archives: JavaScript

open web video screencast #3 – creating your own player

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Chris Double posted about this but I thought it might be worth it to put together a simple video screencast of what this actually looked like in practice. It’s a damn neat idea and opens up all kinds of possibilities. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 17 Comments

screencast of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I’ve made a screencast to describe some of the new video capabilities and how they can interact with the rest of the open web technologies we’re building into Firefox 3.1. Although I’ve embedded it below with a video tag (with … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Video, Web Standards | 18 Comments

mobile / arm tracemonkey first numbers

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Vlad has been doing some of the integration work to get TraceMonkey working on ARM. He’s posted a first set of performance numbers which are more or less in line with the x86 numbers that were originally posted. Here’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, Mobile, Mozilla | 3 Comments

the message you should take to your weekend

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

A quote from a Microsoft guy: “I think that the next 18 months we’re going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in … Continue reading →

Posted in Google Chrome, JavaScript, Microsoft, Mozilla | 9 Comments

performance, chrome, mozilla and tracemonkey

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

So, V8. Well-hyped. It’s got a cool logo. And many claims are being made about its performance. But it is not the only kid on the block. As we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla has been investing … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Google Chrome, JavaScript, Metrics, TraceMonkey, V8 | 17 Comments

tracemonkey and you

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

There have been a pile of posts about the TraceMonkey code that just landed in mozilla-central. mozilla-central is the source code repository we’re using in the lead up to Firefox 3.1. Here are some posts if you want to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Embedding, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, TraceMonkey | 6 Comments

a short future history of JavaScript

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

If you have the time I strongly suggest that you take some time and listen to the second edition of the openweb podcast. This episode should really be called the “Brendan show” because he does most of the talking. But … Continue reading →

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processing + spidermonkey + opengl es + iphone = neat demo

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Someone took Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JS engine, hooked it up to OpenGL ES and shows it off a processing demo on the iPhone. No browser required. Neat stuff! Thanks for the link, John!

Posted in Embedding, iPhone, JavaScript, Mobile, OpenGL | 2 Comments

the hidden value of processing.js

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

The ever wonderful John Resig finally posted his totally awesome processing.js code to the web. If you haven’t seen it, you should go take a look. The Wired Compiler blog said “…this might be the most impressive thing we’ve ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Freedom, JavaScript, Microsoft, Mozilla, Open Web, Processing, Uncategorized, Video | 28 Comments