"F i L" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Problem with efficiency is, in the best of cases, Javascript is 15-30x > slower than native C code; and only after a lot of fine-tuning and on the > newest browsers. Modzilla and Google engineers have been hacking away at > performance issues for years, but the problem is Ecmascript's spec is the > real limiting factor. The spec does update, but when major browsers > vendors like Microsoft simply ignore implantation proposals (like SVG) and > fight against spec improvements (like Ecmascript 4.0) new features can > hardly be used at large, considering 30-40% of web traffic is still > Internet Explorer. >
Solution: Create an IE-compatible JS module that will translate the newer spec into IE-style. Yes, it'll be much slower, but that would just give MS that much more reason to get off their asses and fix things. Although sometimes I almost want to root for MS though: MS's box model and JS mouse API both prove just how far the W3C has it's head up its ass. I can't help wondering if Google has been pushing for subpar shit just because the better alternative was MS's idea.
