The server side of Ajax

From ajaxian.com
In this podcast interview, Justin discusses all that has to happen on the server side in order to render Ajax and its related technologies on the client side, what the shift toward RESTful-style apps means for developers, why there’s an increased focus on security as it pertains to what ends up in the browser [...]

Firefox 3 Performance Numbers

In ajaxian.com there is a benchmark for the javascript engines of several builds of browsers. Very impressive results..
The results of the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test

Firefox 3 Nightly (PGO Optimized): 7263.8ms
Firefox 3 Nightly (02/25/2008 build): 8219.4ms
Opera 9.5.9807 Beta: 10824.0ms
Firefox 3 Beta 3: 16080.6ms
Safari 3.0.4 Beta: 18012.6ms
Firefox 2.0.0.12: 29376.4ms
Internet Explorer 7: 72375.0ms