D for the web?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"F i L" <witte2008 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Problem with efficiency is, in the best of cases, Javascript is 15-30x 
> slower than native C code; and only after a lot of fine-tuning and on the 
> newest browsers. Modzilla and Google engineers have been hacking away at 
> performance issues for years, but the problem is Ecmascript's spec is the 
> real limiting factor. The spec does update, but when major browsers 
> vendors like Microsoft simply ignore implantation proposals (like SVG) and 
> fight against spec improvements (like Ecmascript 4.0) new features can 
> hardly be used at large, considering 30-40% of web traffic is still 
> Internet Explorer.
>

Solution: Create an IE-compatible JS module that will translate the newer 
spec into IE-style. Yes, it'll be much slower, but that would just give MS 
that much more reason to get off their asses and fix things.

Although sometimes I almost want to root for MS though: MS's box model and 
JS mouse API both prove just how far the W3C has it's head up its ass. I 
can't help wondering if Google has been pushing for subpar shit just because 
the better alternative was MS's idea.