In light of the recent announcement about Google Chrome, I found a couple articles particularly interesting:
- First, in “Chrome’s JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight,” Microsoft apparently cites that JavaScript–not Flash–will be the biggest competitive threat to Silverlight.
- Second, in “New Firefox JavaScript engine is faster than Chrome’s V8,” Mozilla has responded to Google Chrome’s JavaScript speed claims by raising the bar still further.
If indeed Microsoft sees JavaScript as Silverlight’s biggest competitive threat, and Mozilla and Google are apparently squaring off for an arms race around JavaScript performance, this bodes extremely well for the future of web applications built on standards-based JavaScript.
