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Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit
JavaScript is everywhere these days. Now WebKit, the framework behind (among others) Safari and Safari Mobile, as well as the yet-unreleased Android, is getting a new JavaScript engine called Squirrelfish, which the developers claim provides massive speedups over the previous one. The current iteration of the engine is "just the beginning," they claim; in the near future, six planned optimizations should bring even greater speed. With JavaScript surviving as a Web-page mainstay despite many early gripes, and now integral to some low-powered mobile devices, this may mean many fewer wasted seconds in the world.
I had this idea, when I was using IE6. I saw IE6 doesn't handle CSS2 as well as firefox does. Therefore I always think about how nice if IE6 allow a CSS interpreter plug-in function, so I can just grab the firefox CSS2 interpreter and plug it in to IE6, so i can continue to use IE6. IE6 is just an example I use here. My point is to give customer more choice and let customer's power to influence how each module should evolve. Instead of packaging everything into a single package where customer must accept everything that come with the package without a choice. My other example would be... if I buy a desktop computer set, but I hate the basic video card that come with the desktop. Everything else inside the computer set is great. Should I suffer and settle down with the basic video card? Or should I be able to choose the best video card in the market and plug into the computer. This way will stimulate the grow of better module (better graphic card... ) because there's a demand.