Ajax Performance

Acid3 for ECMAScript

All star John Resig points out a new Acid 3 test for ECMAScript with the goal of inspiring browser developers to move towards standards by creating competition. The test is still under development, but John ran some preliminary tests across a range of current versions, betas, and nightlies to see where all of the major players stand. Firefox 3 beta is an improvement over Firefox 2. WebKit’s nightly is a huge leap over Safari 3 (the WebKit nightly posted the highest score of all). And IE7 is all jacked up. Hopefully this test is available early enough in the development cycle to get on Microsoft’s radar for IE 8.

So, not specifically performance related, but consistent script support across browsers should lead to slimmer code and should give us more time to focus on optimization. See, I can make anything about performance.