Internet Explorer Scope Resolution

I have enclosed in only 5 steps JScript weirdness, hoping all precedent deliriums about functions, standards, and Internet Explorer, will make more sense now.

Here there is the link to original HTML slides, I hope this will help everybody to have clearer ideas.

JScript Console - A Simple One

After I've read Ajaxian post about JavaScript as a command line scripting language I thought it could be interesting to know how to create the first Windows console.

The console.js File

function print(text){
    WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(text);
};
function quit(){
    WScript.quit(1);
};
while(!WScript.StdIn.AtEndOfStream){
    try{
        eval(WScript.StdIn.ReadLine());
    }catch(e){
        print(e.message);
    };
};
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("bye!" + "\r\n");

The console.bat Launcher

@echo off
cscript console.js

A double click in latter file, and that's it, the most basic native JScript console ever has landed in your PCs - enjoy :)

Defeat Internet Explorer - Can You?

While I was creating a stand alone implementation of the LSSP described in my last HTML5 sessionStorage project, I did some test and bench as every Agile developer should do.

Well, what I have discovered, is that apparently Internet Explorer could perform some common task better than any other browser, at least in my good old Intel Centrino 1.6 Ghz.

I have created a benchmark page able to freeze my Firefox 3.5.2, to ask me if I would like to continue an Array.join execution with an average score that points out my Internet Explorer 8 wins with a score under 300 milliseconds against Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

As summary, is my Centrino dead or there's something we all did not consider about JScript engine?

P.S. Opera 10 beta 2 seems to score about 130 milliseconds as average, good stuff!