Browser Panel
Browsers are the door to the Web. In the last few years browser vendors have dramatically increased their focus on performance. This is the ultimate fulfillment of “fast by default” – faster browsers mean a faster web. But there’s more work to do – custom fonts, SVG and canvas, web sockets, caching, prefetching, etc. Developers also need better tools and instrumentation in order to know what to optimize. Come hear from the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome teams about what they’re working on, and let them know what the next generation of browsers need to have to make web apps fast.
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Steve Souders
Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 of 2 billion Firefox add-ons. He’s created many other performance tools and services including Cuzillion, Jdrop, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O’Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.
Chris Blizzard
Mozilla Foundation
Christopher Blizzard has been with the Mozilla project for the better part of the decade. He maintained the GTK+ front end in Mozilla for a number of years as a contributor but recently joined the Corporation as a full time Mobile and Open Source Evangelist.
Mike Belshe
Mike Belshe has been an early member of the Google Chrome team, working on a number of performance-related areas including network speed, plugins, and javascript performance. Mike has worked at several startups in silicon valley over the last 15 years, including Netscape, Remarq, Good Technology, and Lookout Software. His performance work for the web started in 1995 when he was a lead engineer on the Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0 team. Ironically, he never thought he’d ever be working on browsers back then.
Jason Weber
Microsoft
Jason Weber is a performance lead on the Microsoft Internet Explorer team. Jason is working across the browser subsystems to ensure that Internet Explorer 9 is ready for the performance demands of HTML5 applications, including hardware accelerated graphics and compiled javascript. Jason has been with Microsoft for thirteen years. Before joining the Internet Explorer team in 2008, Jason worked on projects ranging from Microsoft Office to Visual Studio, and was a member of Chairman Bill Gates technical staff.
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Hi Gautam, we did not record this panel, so we won’t be posting video of this one.
Guys when is the video of the panel going be available?
I’m excited to have this opportunity to have YOU ask questions about these browsers. What performance features do you think are critical? What’s in HTML5 that needs to happen ASAP? What isn’t in any specs right now that we need the browser vendors to work on?