The new firefox 3.1 has just been released. Touting its new "tracemonkey" javascript engine it is certainly one of the most powerful browsers on the market to date. I’ve been using it throughout the day and am extremely impressed. Sites that use javascript heavily are far less clunky. Firefox 3.1 is just another example in the web trends we are now seeing. Clearly there is no doubt that javascript is not a dead language. Far from it. It is, and is becoming more and more the web standard. Web sites are no longer exciting if they don’t have javascript special effects and AJAX. We have yet to hear from Microsoft what IE is doing to keep up the pace with other browsers. Hopefully we will see something soon.

Tags: Firefox

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