Happy holidays, Merry Christmas
This week’s news is a bit late, but it’s packed full of good stuff for you to read over the next week. Have a good time, and go smash some Christmas lights (just virtually, of course).
Apple iAd brings new life to PastryKit
Normally I wouldn’t be so excited about a new technology [...]

ControlJS
ControlJS is a new tool by Steve Souders that’s been introduced over a series of blog posts. Coming from Souders, you know it’s got to be about performance! In particular, ControlJS is for making scripts load faster, which is accomplished by async loading, delayed execution, and overriding document.write (which is often used [...]

Crankshaft for V8
Crankshaft is a new JIT compilation infrastructure for V8, the JavaScript engine that powers Chrome and node.js. It offers very significant speed gains and has increased V8’s performance by 50% on their its own V8 benchmark suite, as well as increase the page load performance by 12% for JavaScript-heavy pages such as [...]

Head.js
Head.js is a sort of mashup of a script loader, a feature detector, and an HTML5 shiv/shim in just over 2kb of JavaScript. It gives the developer different configurations for loading and execution of scripts. For instance, you can load in parallel and execute either in order or in the order they arrive.
There’s [...]