Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter.

“Hello, Internet!” WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish.

With the increasing popularity of advanced JavaScript techniques on the web (variously called web 2.0, AJAX or DHTML), we’ve decided to make a big push for JavaScript and DOM compatibility.

I just read an interesting post on quirksmode.org.