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jscript 5.7: Minor update to IE6’s javascript engine

December 19th, 2007

Microsoft just released an update to IE6’s JavaScript engine. It was in response to problems with its (jscript 5.6) garbage collection that would cause poor performance with Large Ajaxy applications … like Gmail. It probably also helps their hotmail web ui too, since that uses ajax as well.

I would personally have liked to see more done with this update (its only a “minor” update), but I suppose you don’t want to give people a reason to hold on to IE 6 right? Hopefully this stops Feed Demon (my RSS reader) from freezing on CNN’s pages?

Read more about the update here

• Erik Arvidsson explains the reason for the update
• IE’s Jscript team announces the push out of jscript 5.7 as an automatic update
• IE’s Jscript team announces the initial release and reasons for it
• Full list of what is new in Jscript 5.7

Entry Filed under: ajax, developers, javascript