On episode 3 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss the enhancements of the XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification.
They also discuss the allegation that Microsoft could be cheating by making IE 9 perform much better than other browsers on specific tests of the SunSpider benchmark.
In this episode of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss an unusual technique to accelerate the load of slow pages which have content retrieved from external sites using JavaScript.
They also discuss the techniques of optimizing JavaScript code presented in the High Performance JavaScript book.
Also on this episode it is discussed the launch of the jQuery Mobile project and the new Node.js screencasts site.