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It did not take long for the developer of NoScript to come up with a new release, as version 2.3 of the extension is now available for download. The current version moved through two release candidates, adding one new feature and further refining the program.
New stuff available in this release is a new blob: &ldquo... |
13 February 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has landed in the dev channel and is ready for testing. It already brings several new features and it's got six more weeks in the dev channel to get more. But apart form the new features, Chrome 19 also adds support for some advanced JavaScript concepts part of the Harmony project, which is slat... |
11 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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A couple of Google engineers set about creating a JavaScript to Dart "dictionary." The idea is to enable JavaScript developers to see how code written in their preferred language would translate into Dart, what the differences and similarities are.
The app lists some of the common use cases and language constructs. ... |
31 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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A new version of the script-blocking extension for Firefox, NoScript has been released. The only change in the current stable version refers to fixing a regression from the release candidate build.
Although fixed in 2.2.8 release candidate, a bug would cause problems with the protection against Koto's Cursorjac... |
25 January 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Giorgio Maone has recently released a new version for his Firefox add-on, NoScript. The new build is 2.2.6 and it was launched with only one release candidate paving its path.
There aren’t too many changes since the release of the previous version, which had no less than three release candidates to solve vario... |
13 January 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Google isn't talking that often about its new "language for the web" Dart, but it's working on it just the same. It's facing quite a challenge trying to upheave JavaScript as the default scripting/programming language for the web. As such, it's trying to demonstrate what Dart brings new in a way d... |
11 January 2012
18:21 GMT |
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It took only three release candidates for the developer to come out with the stable version for NoScript 2.2.5.
All the features you’ve been accustomed to have been preserved and there is no addition in the extension. As all the effort invested to reach this version number was to eliminate bugs and improve co... |
4 January 2012
05:43 GMT |
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IceCat 9.0.1, an Internet Browser based on Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1, has just been announced by its developer, Giuseppe Scrivano. The fact that GNU IceCat is based on Mozilla Firefox means that every modification and feature in the later is automatically transposed in this one, Therefore, GNU IceCat features:&middo... |
29 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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2011 is ending, and whilst normal people are preparing for Christmas and New Year's Eve, JavaScript developers answered a suite of questions for DailyJS.com regarding the general state of JS development.Around 2800 professionals participated in this year's survey, and judging that DailyJS.com serves the mos... |
16 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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The web is becoming increasingly complex and the latest web technology enable developers to push the envelope. And they're clearly doing it. Pingdom, relying on HTTP Archive data, is reporting that the average web page has grown in size by 25 percent in the last year alone.When looking at the top 1,000 sites in ... |
26 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Mozilla is not the only browser maker working on improving JavaScript performance and memory usage. Google has just announced that the latest Chrome/Chromium builds include V8's new incremental garbage collector (GC).
This new GC is designed to create less disruptive interruptions of the processing flow, ensuri... |
22 November 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Google released a new Dev for its web browser and incremented its version to 17.0.938.0. The latest build is available on all supported platforms and does not bring to the table too many notable modifications. However, one important change is the updated JavaScript engine, which features a new and improved ‘ga... |
15 November 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Several days after Firefox 8 landed in the stable channel, beta users are finally getting Firefox 9, which has graduated from the Aurora channel. There aren't any surprises with Firefox 9 Beta, everything that was expected is there.The big new feature in Firefox 9 is type inference for JavaScript. That may not m... |
11 November 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Mozilla has been working on improving Firefox's memory performance lately. Some of the improvements should already be visible in the latest Firefox 7 stable release, but testing releases, Firefox 8 and Firefox 9 move things even further along.But Mozilla is not done yet, is is now working on slimming down its Ja... |
2 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Google is now confirming what people were already seeing, it is now indexing Facebook comments. In fact, that's not even half of it, it is now indexing a lot of content that is hidden away behind JavaScript and AJAX.This means that Google is able to to index comments made via Facebook Comments, Disqus and other ... |
2 November 2011
06:21 GMT |
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The jQuery Core group announced their latest initiative, a Web Standards Team which will bridge the gap between developers, standards organizations and browser manufactures.This latest initiative from the jQuery group aims to fight to good fight with all thy might, to find the true interests of web developers a... |
25 October 2011
10:40 GMT |
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The changes in the new NoScript extension for Firefox may look like nothing much, but compared to the regular modifications over various development versions this edition, 2.1.6, shows quite a list. New additions and bug fixes come in the same amount, with three entries on each side. Newly introduced in NoScript 2.1... |
21 October 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The web is ready to move beyond the plugin. For a long time, advanced functionality could only be achieved with a browser plugin, be it Flash, Java and so on. But there is a greater emphasis than ever on using standard web technologies for everything, which is why the PDF.js project was created.Mozilla is working on ... |
18 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Dart, Google's programming language designed to replace JavaScript, is making its debut with the introduction of an "early preview" of the language.
Google has high hopes for Dart, but since this is the first public release of anything related to the actual code it remains to be seen whether it achieves what ... |
10 October 2011
04:27 GMT |
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The web is more dependent on JavaScript than ever. And the coding language is spreading more and more beyond the web. There are some that are calling for an alternative, but JavaScript is not going anywhere any time soon.
But as more complex projects rely on JavaScript, there is a need for better testing and debug... |
30 September 2011
10:43 GMT |
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For a while, after Google Chrome started picking up steam, JavaScript performance became the main battle grounds between browser makers. That has died down a bit, since all modern browsers are doing a lot better in this department and the performance numbers are more closely packed together.
But just as important ... |
15 September 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Google is one of the most powerful companies on the web. It also has some of the best engineers around and a very strong engineering culture. This enables the company to create great products, but also to push for new technologies and standards that others adopt. Its size and power guarantee that anything it underta... |
14 September 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Although unconfirmed officially by Microsoft, it appears that Windows 8 and Office 15 will have something in common, namely nothing but love for HTML5 and JavaScript. The first public preview of Windows 8 brought with it news of the evolution of the applications designed to run on top of the next generation operatin... |
4 August 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Google has just updated the Gmail Mobile for those mobile phone users who are still not into the Android platform.
Yes, that's right, Android smartphone owners have the pleasure to work with a state of the art Gmail client, but other mobile phone users are not so fortunate.
Well, that is until today, as Go... |
4 August 2011
03:15 GMT |
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The latest testing release of Opera 12.00 codenamed Wahoo brings to the table an update to Carakan, the browser’s JavaScript engine. According to Kaja SI (Kajaql), from the Opera Desktop Team, the Norwegian browser maker switched Carakan to an enhanced, compact object model. The immediate result is an increas... |
14 July 2011
08:37 GMT |
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When it offered the first taste of Windows 8 at D9 and Computex last week, Microsoft opted to highlight the introduction of a new development platform designed to enable devs to build applications running on the next version of Windows using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript technologies. It’s clear that the Redmond c... |
8 June 2011
11:21 GMT |
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For applications, the web is rapidly catching up to native environments in terms of capabilities and performance. Unfortunately, this also means an increase in the complexity of projects. With complexity, more bugs and issues are a given, so web developers need debugging tools just as powerful as those found in tradi... |
28 May 2011
07:05 GMT |
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The revamped Yahoo Mail, which has been in beta so far, is being rolled out to everyone. It's a major update, packed full of new features and improvements. Just as interesting as the new app itself is what Yahoo has done behind the scenes, to ensure that the new Yahoo Mail is faster than ever before."Six months ... |
24 May 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Apple, knowingly bound to simultaneously release the binary and source code for WebKit because of its ties to the GNU Public License, has finally delivered the goods roughly two months late, much to the dismay of developers. AppleInsider points out to a report by Harald Welte of GPL Violations who highlighted the tw... |
10 May 2011
09:40 GMT |
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It's hard to explain why a browser 'feels' better or faster than another, but it's very easy to compare clear numbers. Which is why benchmarks are always cited to 'show' that one browser is faster (and therefore better?) than the next. But benchmarks can't really be trusted.This is ... |
5 May 2011
05:10 GMT |
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While Firefox seems to be playing catch-up more than anything else lately, there are people at Mozilla looking ahead as well. With the new fast release cycle, it possible that Firefox will once again take the lead, at least in some areas. Firefox 4 includes the new JägerMonkey engine which is already a big impro... |
29 April 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Making the web fast is becoming less a matter of network speeds or even browser performance, optimizing the websites themselves provides the best results most of the times. Google is obsessed with speed, but this obsession is a good thing, it means that its websites are light and load fast. But there's always m... |
17 March 2011
13:24 GMT |
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Microsoft has seen spikes in the number of attacks using SWF malware that embeds malicious JavaScript and warns that this technique might become more prevalent in the near future.SWF-based malware is not new. It is commonly used to exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in order to install further threats on c... |
8 March 2011
06:09 GMT |
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Google released the first beta of the Chrome 10 line earlier. It comes with plenty of interesting new features, but perhaps the biggest thing in Chrome 10 is the huge bump in JavaScript performance. For something that's been so touted by Google and which led to a heated competition among browser makers, it'... |
18 February 2011
11:21 GMT |
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A flaw affecting the default Android browser allows remote attackers to steal data from smartphones, as long as they know the location of targeted files on the SD cards.The security issue was discovered by a pen tester named Thomas Cannon while he was assessing the security of an application, and according to him, it... |
24 November 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Mozilla has a lot on its plate with Firefox 4.0. The browser is a significant improvement over previous versions in pretty much every aspect. One area that has seen a lot of focus, especially with the release of Firefox 4.0 Beta 7, is basic speed, be it JavaScript performance or hardware acceleration of 2D and 3D con... |
11 November 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Google has updated its V8 JavaScript benchmark suite. V8 benchmark suite version 6 brings a number of changes to some of the tests in the suite, though there's nothing groundbreaking, just some updates and enhancements. "The V8 benchmark suite contains a number of pure JavaScript benchmarks that capture the area... |
7 October 2010
12:44 GMT |
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Just last week Mozilla was showing off Firefox 4's improvements in JavaScript performance, while at the same time noting the limitations of synthetic benchmarks. Turns out that post may have been a little more self-serving that it first seemed, Mozilla has now released the Kraken, a new browser benchmark which i... |
15 September 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Ever since Google Chrome came out, JavaScript performance has been one of the key aspects of any browser. While Chrome may have kicked off the battle, Opera has been wearing the crow lately.Firefox, unfortunately, has been trailing behind with a significant gap. But thanks to the brand new JavaScript engine built int... |
13 September 2010
15:46 GMT |
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The latest pre-Beta 6 Builds of Firefox 4.0 bring to the table a dramatic increase in performance associated with JavaScript. This because the new nightly builds offered by Mozilla earlier this week contain the next generation JavaScript engine for the open source browser, codenamed JägerMonkey. Early adopters ... |
10 September 2010
12:23 GMT |
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With Script Junkie, Microsoft is expanding MSDN with a web-focused developer hub. According to S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President, Developer Division, the new learning hotspot on MSDN is designed to enable developers to access free resources standards based web technologies.“Learning HTML, JavaScript, CS... |
27 August 2010
10:14 GMT |
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Apple has posted a special page on its website dedicated to promoting HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript as the best tools for web designers, application developers, etc. A number of demos show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices support the capabilities of the a... |
4 June 2010
03:08 GMT |
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One of the insatiable obsessions that have become inherently associated with browser comparisons is related to performance. And not even performance as a whole, but especially in relation to JavaScript, and, according to the results of the WebKit SunSpider test, while all browser makers, Microsoft included, are now p... |
18 May 2010
11:06 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has a lot of enhancements in store for its upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system, and some of them are expected to affect the experience offered to users by the Internet Explorer Mobile included in the platform. Among them, the company notes a series of JavaScript and CSS e... |
12 May 2010
06:46 GMT |
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About a month ago, Google introduced a new Docs document editor. It brought a lot of new features and was, for the most part, a welcomed upgrade over the existing tool. The biggest changes, though, were under the hood. While the new editor may not look all that changed from the old one, they are two entirely differen... |
11 May 2010
12:10 GMT |
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Google has just released a brand-new beta of its Google Chrome web browser. As is usually the case, it touts it as the fastest Chrome ever and cites significant JavaScript performance improvements over the previous beta and the first Chrome release. But, unlike the time the Google browser was first launched, it&rsquo... |
7 May 2010
12:09 GMT |
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Google has just updated its Chrome beta and it says that the latest release is the fastest ever, and by a solid margin. While it’s hard to argue with the numbers, it’s also hard to translate them into practical terms. Google says that running JavaScript is three times faster now than it was when Chrome wa... |
6 May 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Google has released a new beta of its constantly evolving Google Chrome web browser. Google Chrome 5.0.375.23 Beta brings all of the new features that have trickled into the dev channel builds of late, things like support for the Geolocation API and theme sync, but it also marks a significant improvement in JavaScrip... |
5 May 2010
07:17 GMT |
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With all modern web browsers battling over JavaScript performance, there is a need for ways to reliably measure it. One benchmark that has proven very popular is SunSpider, created by the Webkit team. The benchmark is regularly used to compare various JavaScript engines, but, with things moving so fast in this area, ... |
8 April 2010
05:56 GMT |
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The SXSW festival was underway in Austin, Texas over the weekend with plenty of startups there to strut their stuff and geeks to drool over the latest hyped service. But, among the struggling newcomers, some pretty established players were also there to show off their products or just to be there. The Gmail team was ... |
15 March 2010
04:56 GMT |
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