Bluish CoderProgramming Languages, Martial Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.Firefox HTML5 video and audio update- May 27, 2008 A week or so ago I updated the linux build of the gstreamer based HTML5 video implemention with some fixes that make it work nicely with the public sites using <video. This includes wikimedia and metavid. Video's on those sites with that build show a much better user experience than previous builds.Two new backends are in progress by other Kiwi Mozilla team members. A DirectShow backend for Windows being developed by Chris Pearce and a QuickTime backend for Mac OS X being developed by...http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/05/firefox-html5-video-and-audio-update.html Tamarin Documentation- May 21, 2008 There have been some great weblog posts recently about the internals of Tamarin. If you're interested in more details about Tamarin, try the following:Mason Chang's Tamarin postsDavid Mandelin's Tracing Internals postMozilla Tamarin wiki pageFor the brave there is an implementation of the Tamarin engine that runs as a scripting engine within Internet Explorer. Called 'Screaming Monkey' it is actually working and an alpha release is available. Screaming Monkey is based on the Tamarin Central...http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/05/tamarin-documentation.html Extending Tamarin Tracing with Forth- May 20, 2008 My previous article on extending Tamarin Tracing with native methods described how to implement the native methods in C. It's also possible to implement native methods in Forth.Methods implemented in JavaScript are compiled to ABC bytecode by a compiler (currently the asc.jar provided by the Flex SDK). These are compiled to the basic Forth instructions by the Tamarin Tracing engine and those Forth instructions are run by the interpreter. 'Hot' areas of the Forth instructions are traced and...http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/05/extending-tamarin-tracing-with-forth.html |