At first, I gave an introduction talk.
JavaScript Hot Topics 2008 (Adobe MAX Edition)
#10 - 10th Anniversary of MM_SwapImage()
#9 - Shibuya.js comes to Kyoto
#8 - ECMAScript 4 failed. Now 3.1 instead.
#7 - Adobe launches Flash 10
#6 - iPhone 3G integrated with JavaScript
#5 - Many companies switching to JavaScript
#4 - Microsoft follows web standards by IE8
#3 - Varieties of JavaScript libraries
#2 - Playing .swf by JavaScript on the scene
#1 - Too Rapid JavaScript. No JIT, No Life.
The 2nd speaker was Yu Kobayashi a.k.a. yukoba who was the author of HotRuby virtual machine. His talk was about "How to implement a Flash Player."
The next was Satoshi Ueyama a.k.a. gyuque. He also implemented another Flash Player named "JSplash" which had a trick to translate ActionScript code to JavaScript code. This pre-compiling feature gave it enough performance compared to Adobe's native Flash Player. That means we don't need flash player any more.
The 4th was Moriyoshi Koizumi who was one of Japanese PHP committers. He gave a talk about "JavaScript's Sound Generation" using data scheme.
The last was Hotoshi Amano a.k.a. amachang. He always starts to develop new presentation tool before he writes slides for each conferences. Now he made it in 3D. Note that only nightly build of WebKits - at that time, now Safari 4 is available - could show his slides. His talk itself was about "DOM Performance Tuning."
Anyway, in the Adobe's conference, we're happy to let them know these crazy JavaScript guys're existing and working hard for the high level of techniques and user experience.
The 2nd JUI Speakers
The original post of this was written in Japanese.