SubscribeYet more Javascript benchmarks
Every so often, it’s nice to take a look at the state of Javascript performance among the various browsers. Though misleading, it’s become something of a truism that “browser performance” is just a nice euphemism for “Javascript performance,” since any website doing anything interesting is basically leveraging Javascript to do it.
What’s come up since [...]
Using YUI compressor in a web project
Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).
After the initial learning curve, this has all been going swimmingly. I merged my first development branch into the trunk yesterday, and this branch [...]
Creating an admissions dashboard
This entry pertains to work done in the context of my employment. Please remember, however, that any opinions expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or co-workers.
The Problem
Admissions needed help. They had been moved from their former product, Exeter, to Banner’s native admissions module. But Banner’s interface [...]
Javascript performance is about to get turbo-charged
I personally think the friendly rivalry between the open-source Webkit engine (which powers Safari, among other things) and Mozilla (the Gecko engine, actually) is one of the best things to happen to browser development in years. The constant one-upsmanship can only lead to better browsers. Well, Internet Explorer will constantly be the limiting [...]
Blockquote metadata extractor 1.2
My little blockquote title|cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results. It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.
It’s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I’ve altered the code to check string lengths instead of looking checking for null.
Get [...]
Javascript engines in 32-bit and 64-bit browsers
I recently performed some cursory Javascript benchmarks with the new version of Firefox and Safari; curious about performance, I decided to do some testing of 32-bit browsers against their 64-bit counterparts. On Windows Vista x64, the only two browsers so available to me are Internet Explorer 7 and a recent nightly build of [...]
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