Mozilla presents Firefox3.1's new features on SCALE

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Mozilla's "evangelist" Chris Blizzard talked about some new features in the next version of Firefox at the Southern California Linux exhibition (SCALE) on Saturday. Mozilla is preparing to officially release Firefox 3.1. this version will bring more powerful performance to Web developers, and some experimental new features will also appear in 3.1.

In Firefox3.1, the native JSON parser will be included. preliminary tests prove that the original JSON parser in Firefox will improve the performance and this feature will be widely used by program developers, because Microsoft also intends to provide full compatibility in IE8.

Another impressive feature is that Web application developers can effectively use the Worker threads support provided in Firefox3.1 to support concurrent execution in Javascript ). A working thread can make it execute complex computing in the background, so it does not make the browser and Web programs false or unresponsive.

HTML5 video elements will also arrive at Firefox 3.1, which will allow the video content to be directly embedded into the page through Javascript and operated through DOM. Firefox 3.1 has built-in support for Ogg Vorbis and Theora formats-open-source audio and video codecs are not subject to patent issues. These codecs are executed through the browser, so the content in this format can be played directly without the need to install extensions and plug-ins.

In addition, he also talked about some new features in this presentation, including SVG filters in HTML, cross-site XMLHttpRequest, DNS prefetch, and built-in font support.