Parallel JavaScript
JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, yet it remains predominantly sequential and web applications until recently have been unable to utilize hardware parallelism. The goal of Parallel JavaScript is to change that.
Tag: performance
Scaling YUI in the Enterprise
Kevin Lamping, a front-end web developer with USAA, presents on how to scale Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) for use in their enterprise web applications. YUI is an open source JavaScript library for building richly interactive web applications. The topics discussed include server-side integration, event delegation and YUI instance caching.
How to Make JavaScript Widgets Scream
When loading websites every millisecond counts. Social widgets should enhance a website experience and they should definitely not slow it down. We’ll walk through the unique challenges of loading social widgets such as the +1 button and how we made sure that they load as fast as possible — yes, …