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The web platform – and the future of browsers
By Therese Hansen | September 15, 2009
A very fast Javascript engine, thread support, Canvas and beauty are some of the succes factors for the web as a platform according to Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer. At QCon London 2009 Dion and Ben from Mozilla Labs gave their vision of the web platform and their educated guesses about how browsers will evolve – even the IE-browser.
We videotaped the presentation and you can watch the video here:
After talking a lot about the Bespin and performance, and bragging about how well Bespin performes on a large code base, the familiar demo ghost showed up and teased Ben and Dion: Bespin was surprisingly slow on a larger code base and according to Ben and Dion it hadn’t been the day before. Fortunately Ben later found the reason and blogged about it. And the culprit was the tab character and how it is supported in Bespin. In his blog post Ben discusses the possible ways to support tabs in code and their effect on performance including the fix that he made after the failed Bespin demo at QCon.
You can also download the slides from this presentation.
