Internet Explorer with V8 Engine :: A Partial Reality
Update now it works with Internet Explorer 7 and 8 with O3D plug-in enabled. Today, via ajaxian , I discovered the new Google O3D project and as a nerd first, and a developer after, I instantly read the API. Few seconds and I spot this: Use the V8 engine OK, OK, whatever code you read there will not instantly work ... you have to understand the library and how to retrieve the dreamed eval function to make JavaScript execution possible inside the extremely fast V8 engine. Obviously V8 integration is great with FireFox and other browsers, but a bit different in Internet Explorer. This limitation is about the DOM manipulation, something that would make IE a good browser, but everything else, executed via V8 engine and without browser engine references , will perform 5 to 100 time faster. Function creations, optimized loops, numbers, string manupulation, etc etc ... if we could use a little plugin to fully integrate V8 inside Explorer, we could all forget nowadays benchmark because it w...