Comments on: SquirrelFish: Details on the new

By: TNO

TNO — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:59:31 +0000

Dave Mandelin’s followup: http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2008/06/03/squirrelfish/

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:34:40 +0000

@Nosredna:
All js in a web view in AIR uses JavaScriptCore. The problem facing AIR devs is how long Adobe will take to update the Webkit core in AIR. It’s currently shipping with a version significantly older than Safari 3.0′s core.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:33:13 +0000

AIR uses Webkit, no? Perhaps this will make the JavaScript half of AIR as fast as the ActionScript half of AIR.

Or does AIR use the rendering part of Webkit only?

By: Danie Luz

Danie Luz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:56:21 +0000

Nosredna, Tamarin will only appear on Firefox 4, I don’t think there’s any way around that. And the tracing branch is still on its early stages, but I believe there’s plenty of time for it to mature until Fx 4 is out.

By: Jeria

Jeria — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:48:07 +0000

That’s a really ugly fish by the way. It looks drunk.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:22:20 +0000

It would be kinf of neat to see javascript distributed as bytecode in the future, which would mean faster & smaller scripts and applications.

The downside being the source won’t be as easy to read, but then, since we minify/compress most of our javascript these days anyway, it wouldn’t be such a loss.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:39:59 +0000

Does this turn up the flame on the Firefox team to get their long-awaited Tamarin-tracing JavaScript into the browser? Last I heard, that was still going to be a while.