Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
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Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
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Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#2I hope they implement WebSockets, that sole feature will change the way we know the web.
The real-time web, the next "wave".
Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#3I've been running 3.5b4 for a while. I've seen the future, and it looks a lot like the current version of the web, just a bit faster.
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#4A bit sad how Firefox is now chasing IE and Chrome for features and speed. Oh well, were it not for Firefox we'd all still be running IE6.
The King is dead. Love live the King.
Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#5I've been running 3.5b4 for a while. I've seen the future, and it looks a lot like the current version of the web, just a bit faster.
It is pointed that the features of Firefox 3.5 are mainly for developers not users. So we will have to wait a bit longer before websites will make use of them.
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#6Anyone know what their Javascript threading model will look like? I am both excited and scared.
Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#7A bit sad how Firefox is now chasing IE and Chrome for features and speed. Oh well, were it not for Firefox we'd all still be running IE6. The King is dead. Love live the King.
It is definitely not chasing IE for speed. AFAIK firefox is faster than IE in JS and rendering and is also more standards compliant
Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#8A bit sad how Firefox is now chasing IE and Chrome for features and speed. Oh well, were it not for Firefox we'd all still be running IE6. The King is dead. Love live the King.
Glad to see I'm not the only that finds it ironic how Firefox only took 2 versions to abandon the original reasoning (lightweight, fast, better UI) that made them so much better than anything else. It's not like in the last few years people have suddenly wanted heavier, slower, harder.
Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#9A bit sad how Firefox is now chasing IE and Chrome for features and speed. Oh well, were it not for Firefox we'd all still be running IE6. The King is dead. Love live the King.
Exactly. The situation today is exactly what freaked Microsoft out back in the 90s, so much that they went all-out to murder Netscape: Continuously improving standards-based browsers. We've got Firefox to thank for that.
Say what you will about the Mozilla project, over the past decade it's been the single largest force for making our lives as web developers better. It's good to see that they're keeping up the tradition, and pushing forward. The feature list for 3.5 is damned exciting.
Re: Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
#10I hope they implement WebSockets, that sole feature will change the way we know the web. The real-time web, the next "wave".
Hear, hear!
The sooner we can ditch elaborate long-polling hacks, the happier I'll be. We've got a lot of features on the drawing board that would be enormously simplified by WebSockets.