Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

Henri Sivonen, one of Mozilla’s Firefox developers, has written a guest post on hacks.mozilla.org about Firefox’s new HTML5 parser.

Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog


There are four main things that improve with the new HTML5 parser:

  • You can now use SVG and MathML inline in HTML5 pages, without XML namespaces.
  • Parsing is now done off Firefox’s main UI thread, improving overall browser responsiveness.
  • It’s improved the speed of innerHTML calls by about 20%.
  • With the landing of the new parser we’ve fixed dozens of long-standing parser related bugs.
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