Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/ YK; born July 4, 1961) is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language

with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language. The goal was a "language for the masses"

the Mozilla Foundation. It is the first JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, and later released as open source and currently

was created by Brendan Eich in 1995 for the Netscape Navigator web browser. It was a rudimentary interpreter for the nascent language Eich invented. (This

early as on 6 September 2001 (personal email[clarification needed]). Brendan Eich, who developed JavaScript at Netscape, gave this account of the origin

Click above for a PDF of my slides (sorry, I used Keynote for several reasons, and its generated HTML is huge and not likely to work well with WP). Long-…

Free ORBX and OctaneCloud AMIs forever, not just for a trial period. OTOY will focus higher up the value chain. ORBX.js to be open-sourced on github as s…

With DHTML and AJAX hot (or hot again; we’ve been here before, and I don’t like either acronym), I am asked frequently these days about JavaScript, past …

Posts Dave Winer seems to have misheard my exchange with the Gillmor Gang about RSS and HTML: I was asked, at around 36 minutes into the show (not 20 min…

Posts Mozilla has gone from open source whipping boy in 1999 to open source poster child since 2004, due in large part to the success of Firefox. For tha…

This is not out of line given the eight years since ES3, which came less than three years after ES1. Much of ES4 has been developed and shipped in ES3-ba…

Tag: UI A lot of folks in the Mozilla community share the reaction Boris had to some deeply mistaken, tentative and now-aborted plans to remove View / So…

Tag: CSS I ran across an old posting from dbaron about how CSS’s 2nd generation still can’t do simple box layout needed for UI, which means that the web …

Tag: W3C I spent a day at the recent w3c workshop on web apps and compound documents. Due to vacation, that day was the second, so I missed the chance to…

Tag: XUL Recap I was invited to present a keynote at ACM ICFP 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of September. The very kind program comittee was unanim…

Tag: RSS Dave Winer seems to have misheard my exchange with the Gillmor Gang about RSS and HTML: I was asked, at around 36 minutes into the show (not 20 …

This roadmap update has been much-delayed, as we have juggled priorities and sweated security releases on the AVIARY_1_0_1 branch. Sorry for the delay; I …

V8Monkey is SpiderMonkey with V8’s API around it. We are not done emulating the full V8 API. Because we haven’t managed to perfectly emulate the full V8 …

Month: July 2004 Dave Winer seems to have misheard my exchange with the Gillmor Gang about RSS and HTML: I was asked, at around 36 minutes into the show …

Month: July 2007 My Ajax Experience Westkeynote covers a lot of ground, with slant-wise truth telling the over-arching theme. Mozilla believes in fairly …

Month: June 2005 With DHTML and AJAX hot (or hot again; we’ve been here before, and I don’t like either acronym), I am asked frequently these days about …

Syntax as programming language user-interface should evolve, but unlike standard library additions, developers can’t fix it or abstract over it (no macro…

Month: April 2008 It seems (according to one guru, but coming from this source, it’s a left-handed compliment) that JavaScript is finally popular. To me,…

Month: April 2004 Miguel nails the key threats in XAML/Avalon/whatever: fancy graphics, widgets, and layout; easier XML-based authoring; better “managed …

Month: March 2013 This week, a number of Mozillians attended the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to demonstrate how the Web is a compe…

I was a last minute substitution for Andreas Gal, fellow mad scientist co-founder at Mozilla Research, so I added one slide at his expense. (This talk wa…

Month: August 2008 I’m extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 …

Month: August 2004 A lot of folks in the Mozilla community share the reaction Boris had to some deeply mistaken, tentative and now-aborted plans to remov…

Everything that has been done to advance JavaScript to the proposed ECMAScript 4th Edition (ES4) in Ecma TC39-TG1 has been in the open for well over a ye…

Month: October 2005 Recap I was invited to present a keynote at ACM ICFP 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of September. The very kind program comittee…

Month: January 2005 Thanks to Dawson Engler for helping get us connected to Coverity last Fall. Dan Veditz and I have done several scans of Mozilla sourc…

Month: October 2013 As I noted last year, one of the biggest challenges to open source software has been the patent status of video codecs. The most popu…

Tracking bug 799318 for the above two and the missing Mac OS X bug, plus the Windows XP solution described next. The idea for Windows XP is to use Flash.…

Month: October 2011 Chris Williams makes a moving plea for an end to negativity, meaning trolling, flaming, mocking, and hating in online media. This sou…

Month: February 2006 Mark Hammond’s work to support Python in XUL is nearly done. The DOM_AGNOSTIC2_BRANCH should land in the next few weeks. Already I s…

Month: November 2006 For Mozilla 2, I proposed that we use Oink, or really Elsa, to build a tool that can help automate deCOMtamination, switching to C++…

(Goal 2 implies many things beyond what is discussed in these notes.) Non-goals, again shared (mostly!) by ECMA TG1 going back to Waldemar’s Edition 4 dr…

Month: February 2007 I hacked Unix kernel code out of grad school at SGI, in SGI’s “good old days” (1985-1992). Among otherthings, we took single-threade…

Month: September 2011 I took time away from the Mozilla all-hands last week to help out on-stage at the Intel Developer Forum with the introduction of Ri…

Baker: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO No matter what they were, he had become politically toxic by virtue of expressing opinions (and backing the…

Funding the Web with Brendan Eich Featuring Brought to you by Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the…

Brendan Eich is working on officially adding Math.TAU to JavaScript. Until JavaScript has full support for the Math.TAU constant, you can add the followi…

Excited about Eich I’m excited that Brendan Eich is Mozilla’s CEO. Brendan knows what’s important right now: building the values of the web into mobile a…

CSS Browser War Panel Brendan Eich – Mozilla Chris Wilson – Microsoft Charles McCarthie-Nevile – Opera First point: Where is Apple? They wouldn’t send an…

Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/ YK; born July 4, 1961) is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language

Click above for a PDF of my slides (sorry, I used Keynote for several reasons, and its generated HTML is huge and not likely to work well with WP). Long-t…

with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language. The goal was a "language for the masses"

the Mozilla Foundation. It is the first JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, and later released as open source and currently

was created by Brendan Eich in 1995 for the Netscape Navigator web browser. It was a rudimentary interpreter for the nascent language Eich invented. (This

early as on 6 September 2001 (personal email[clarification needed]). Brendan Eich, who developed JavaScript at Netscape, gave this account of the origin

Click above for a PDF of my slides (sorry, I used Keynote for several reasons, and its generated HTML is huge and not likely to work well with WP). Long-…

Free ORBX and OctaneCloud AMIs forever, not just for a trial period. OTOY will focus higher up the value chain. ORBX.js to be open-sourced on github as s…

With DHTML and AJAX hot (or hot again; we’ve been here before, and I don’t like either acronym), I am asked frequently these days about JavaScript, past …

Posts Dave Winer seems to have misheard my exchange with the Gillmor Gang about RSS and HTML: I was asked, at around 36 minutes into the show (not 20 min…

Posts Mozilla has gone from open source whipping boy in 1999 to open source poster child since 2004, due in large part to the success of Firefox. For tha…

This is not out of line given the eight years since ES3, which came less than three years after ES1. Much of ES4 has been developed and shipped in ES3-ba…

Tag: UI A lot of folks in the Mozilla community share the reaction Boris had to some deeply mistaken, tentative and now-aborted plans to remove View / So…

Tag: CSS I ran across an old posting from dbaron about how CSS’s 2nd generation still can’t do simple box layout needed for UI, which means that the web …

Tag: W3C I spent a day at the recent w3c workshop on web apps and compound documents. Due to vacation, that day was the second, so I missed the chance to…

Tag: XUL Recap I was invited to present a keynote at ACM ICFP 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of September. The very kind program comittee was unanim…

Tag: RSS Dave Winer seems to have misheard my exchange with the Gillmor Gang about RSS and HTML: I was asked, at around 36 minutes into the show (not 20 …

This roadmap update has been much-delayed, as we have juggled priorities and sweated security releases on the AVIARY_1_0_1 branch. Sorry for the delay; I …

V8Monkey is SpiderMonkey with V8’s API around it. We are not done emulating the full V8 API. Because we haven’t managed to perfectly emulate the full V8 …

Month: July 2004 Dave Winer seems to have misheard my exchange with the Gillmor Gang about RSS and HTML: I was asked, at around 36 minutes into the show …

Month: July 2007 My Ajax Experience Westkeynote covers a lot of ground, with slant-wise truth telling the over-arching theme. Mozilla believes in fairly …

Month: June 2005 With DHTML and AJAX hot (or hot again; we’ve been here before, and I don’t like either acronym), I am asked frequently these days about …

Syntax as programming language user-interface should evolve, but unlike standard library additions, developers can’t fix it or abstract over it (no macro…

Month: April 2008 It seems (according to one guru, but coming from this source, it’s a left-handed compliment) that JavaScript is finally popular. To me,…

Month: April 2004 Miguel nails the key threats in XAML/Avalon/whatever: fancy graphics, widgets, and layout; easier XML-based authoring; better “managed …

Month: March 2013 This week, a number of Mozillians attended the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to demonstrate how the Web is a compe…

I was a last minute substitution for Andreas Gal, fellow mad scientist co-founder at Mozilla Research, so I added one slide at his expense. (This talk wa…

Month: August 2008 I’m extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 …

Month: August 2004 A lot of folks in the Mozilla community share the reaction Boris had to some deeply mistaken, tentative and now-aborted plans to remov…

Everything that has been done to advance JavaScript to the proposed ECMAScript 4th Edition (ES4) in Ecma TC39-TG1 has been in the open for well over a ye…

Month: October 2005 Recap I was invited to present a keynote at ACM ICFP 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of September. The very kind program comittee…

Month: January 2005 Thanks to Dawson Engler for helping get us connected to Coverity last Fall. Dan Veditz and I have done several scans of Mozilla sourc…

Month: October 2013 As I noted last year, one of the biggest challenges to open source software has been the patent status of video codecs. The most popu…

Tracking bug 799318 for the above two and the missing Mac OS X bug, plus the Windows XP solution described next. The idea for Windows XP is to use Flash.…

Month: October 2011 Chris Williams makes a moving plea for an end to negativity, meaning trolling, flaming, mocking, and hating in online media. This sou…

Month: February 2006 Mark Hammond’s work to support Python in XUL is nearly done. The DOM_AGNOSTIC2_BRANCH should land in the next few weeks. Already I s…

Month: November 2006 For Mozilla 2, I proposed that we use Oink, or really Elsa, to build a tool that can help automate deCOMtamination, switching to C++…

(Goal 2 implies many things beyond what is discussed in these notes.) Non-goals, again shared (mostly!) by ECMA TG1 going back to Waldemar’s Edition 4 dr…

Month: February 2007 I hacked Unix kernel code out of grad school at SGI, in SGI’s “good old days” (1985-1992). Among otherthings, we took single-threade…

Month: September 2011 I took time away from the Mozilla all-hands last week to help out on-stage at the Intel Developer Forum with the introduction of Ri…

Baker: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO No matter what they were, he had become politically toxic by virtue of expressing opinions (and backing the…

Funding the Web with Brendan Eich Featuring Brought to you by Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the…

Brendan Eich is working on officially adding Math.TAU to JavaScript. Until JavaScript has full support for the Math.TAU constant, you can add the followi…

Excited about Eich I’m excited that Brendan Eich is Mozilla’s CEO. Brendan knows what’s important right now: building the values of the web into mobile a…

CSS Browser War Panel Brendan Eich – Mozilla Chris Wilson – Microsoft Charles McCarthie-Nevile – Opera First point: Where is Apple? They wouldn’t send an…