#Ideas

November 7, 2006. Adobe gifts 135,000 lines of code to Mozilla in the form of Project Tamarin, a Javascript Virtual Machine compliant with the still-not-fully-implemented ECMAScript 4. Mozilla would try a few times to incorporate Tamarin into Firefox, but would eventually abandon that idea for performance reasons.

Still, it injected some enthusiasm into adopting more modern Javascript standards, pushing the web forward at a time when it really needed that.

#Bookmarks

I quoted from Interface Culture by Steven Johnson recently.

He also once said this in an interview (emphasis mine)

I suspect, I’ve been incredibly energized by all the grassroots Web 2.0 applications that have exploded over the past few years, most of them descendants of Firefly in one way or another. (Someone — and come to think of it, it’s probably me — should go back and track all the core ingredients of today’s Web that were visible at Firefly circa 1996.) 

That parenthetical is my current project. It’s taking me in all sorts of directions.