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Ajaxian Jan 23 09 It turns out that Alex was scooped on his own work. He was playing around with the question:
What would Dojo look like if it was WebKit only?
He ended up with webkitMobile.dojo.js which is 26-29% smaller (depending on compression).
The big size wins (in decreasing order) were:
Moving to a QSA-only version of dojo.query()
Being able to use intrinsics [...] Full story...
Node.js employs an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O model, and it provides some blindingly fast performance to some types of data-intensive Web apps.
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end.
Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers.
Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine.