For the tech curious of you, the SmallTalk and Self connections to Javascript have become even more solidified with the release of Google Chrome. Turns out the team that designed the new JS VM also designed StrongTalk, one of the first serious VM experiments to make a dynamic language blazing fast, as well as having worked on the Self and HotSpot Java VM projects at Sun. (VM = Virtual Machine, wikipedia article).
This has serious repercussions for the possibility of dynamic graphics via the Canvas tag (wikipedia article) in the browser. Did I mention that Firefox 3.0 and nightly builds of WebKit support pixel level control of Canvas?
