Vortex: An offline abstraction on top of Google Gears

from ajaxian.com

Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs

Off-line web applications are a big deal for many companies/projects such as Adobe/AIR, Mozilla/Prism, Google/Google Gears and possibly Microsoft/Silverlight.
From gearsblog.blogspot.com:
Gears for mobile devices is initially available for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
An interesting point is that they “plan to keep the Gears API consistent across all platforms”.
So Steve Jobs new something and [...]

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