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browsers, standards, events
At the moment, I’m participating in a State of the Web 2009 panel discussion at Web Directions North. Lars Erik Bolstad from Opera is on the same panel and has just announced that Opera has developed a new ECMAScript/JavaScript engine named Carakan that uses a register-based bytecode instruction set and that’s 2.5 times faster on SunSpider than the previous JS engine in Opera, named Futhark.
And by providing an experimental implementation of a mechanism that eliminates the need for a bytecode-interpreter step — by compiling directly into native code — it has the potential to provide even more dramatic speed improvements. On the order of 5 to 50 times faster.
2009-02-05 ·
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events
I’m at the Web Directions North event in Denver this week. I did a presentation at the “Ed Directions” pre-event yesterday and afterwards had a great dinner discussion with many of the folks involved in that.
Earlier today, John Allsopp asked me if I’d take part in the panel for the State of the Web 2009 discussion in the afternoon, along with Chris Wilson, Dan Connolly, Lars Erik Bolstad from Opera, Scott Fegette from Adobe, and John himself. So, very much looking forward to that.
I knew Manu Sporny and Christian Heilman would be here, and was glad to have a chance to finally meet them and talk with them during a break this morning. Among the other folks I’m looking forward to meeting here are Brad Neuberg and Dion Almaer. And have not seen my friend Ryan Sarver here yet, but I know he’s going to be here, so will be great to see him.
Tomorrow morning I’ll be doing my Web standards and the browser landscape: The year in review, the year ahead presentation. I guess I should probably get around to finishing up the slides for that…
2009-02-05 ·
mobile, standards, events, html5
Update: An entry about this video interview and the other interviews that Ian did at XTech is now online at the BBC Backstage site:
Backstage Blog: Video interviews from Xtech 2007
Among the videos that Ian Forrester from the BBC shot at XTech 2007 the week before last is an interview with Steven Pemberton and me. We talk about the Mobile Web Initiative, XHTML2, XForms, HTML5, the <canvas> element, and a few other things.
Use the Click to Play link below to watch the video (warning: requires Flash Player 8).
2007-05-27 ·
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