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Google Open Sources Internal JavaScript Tools

Google is all about the web apps and, for Google, web apps means JavaScript. The giant has been a huge backer of the scripting language and has played a big part in making it one of the most popular web technologies today. But, now, it wants to help it become even more popular and allow developers to build faster and...

6 November 2009
05:08 GMT

Doloto AJAX App Optimization Tool Available for Download

With Doloto, Microsoft is offering web developers a tool designed to increase the performance of complex web 2.0 websites which contain a lot of code. Available through MSDN DevLabs, Doloto is advertised as a download time optimizer for web 2.0 applications. Essentially, Microsoft is describing the release as an AJAX...

7 September 2009
10:25 GMT

Mozilla Labs Prepares TestSwarm, the Latest Project from John Resig

John Resig, the creator of the infamous jQuery JavaScript library, has announced on GitHub the release of a new Mozilla Labs project, called TestSwarm. Developed under his supervision, this is still in Alpha development, and even if it's not yet featured on the Mozilla Labs official page, he has confirmed that i...

27 August 2009
05:39 GMT

sIFR: Using Non-Standard Web Fonts

Mark Wubben and Mark Davidson, two JavaScript and Flash developers, came up with a unique technique back in 2004 of incorporating non-standard web fonts in modern-day Web 2.0 websites. Relying on a simple variable input inside a SWF file that contains an embedded font, developers can rapidly embed Flash objects inste...

26 August 2009
11:03 GMT

JCryption, a JavaScript Encryption Library

For many developers, the hassle from working with SSL can be replaced with a simple JavaScript library called JCryption. Released on August 2, 2009 by Austrian developer Daniel Griesser with collaborations from the jQuery Development Team and Andrew Shapiro from JS-Library, it boasts being a real easy and fast soluti...

12 August 2009
09:50 GMT

JavaScript 2.0, a Quick Preview

Commonly referred to as JavaScript, the ECMAScript scripting language has been an important milestone in the development of web applications since its launch in 1996. ECMA International announced last year the release of ECMAScript 4th Edition, a new and greatly improved version of the ten-year-old ECMA 3rd edition. ...

7 August 2009
11:56 GMT

Microsoft Looks to the Future of JS, Google Tends to the Present

It's not too often that Microsoft and Google manage to find common ground on any initiative. It's even less frequent that the companies are sharing the focus of their efforts, while working independently from one another. However, the end of June 2009 has seen both giants deliver initiatives designed to boo...

1 July 2009
10:53 GMT

Microsoft Releases Tests for the Evolution of JavaScript

Microsoft has made available a collection of tests designed to streamline the adoption of the next revision of the JavaScript standard. ECMAScript Fifth Edition, as the evolution of JS is referred to, is expected to be completed later in 2009, with formal uptake starting by the end of this year. In order to facilitat...

30 June 2009
06:50 GMT

Sputnik, Google's New JavaScript Test Suite

Google engineers working on the Chrome web browser have announced a new open-source JavaScript testing and performance suite called Sputnik. The new test suite is intended to provide a comprehensive set of tests, more than 5,000 of them, and check compliance with the ECMA-262 JavaScript standard. “The goal wa...

30 June 2009
04:01 GMT

Download Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta with Extra Horsepower

The latest Beta update of Google Chrome came under a week since the previous release, version 2.0.172.27. For Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta, Google is promising that end users will be able to enjoy extra horsepower when it comes down to websites leveraging JavaScript.The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an exp...

25 May 2009
11:12 GMT

The Chromium Team Tests V8's Scalability

The Chromium blog had a post recently about the scalability of the V8 JavaScript engine, in which it describes why it is important for a JavaScript engine to scale well when faced with modern complex web applications. With web applications becoming more and more powerful, replacing desktop applications in some cases,...

25 May 2009
07:23 GMT

IE8 JavaScript Evolution Focused on Boosting Performance of Real World JS Apps

It's on more than one occasion that rival browsers “swimming” in JavaScript have made Internet Explorer look like a fish out of water. Just the past week, Google released Chrome Experiments, a collection of content tailored to the Chrome browser and its V8 JavaScript engine, some of which are perfect...

25 March 2009
05:19 GMT

Microsoft to Include a Widget Engine with WM 6.5

According to the latest news on the Web, Microsoft might include Windows Mobile 6.5 with a widget engine, which would allow applications built from HTML and JavaScript to use the IE 6 Mobile engine, yet leaving aside the “chrome,” such as IE menus or address bar. Normally, the engine would only be associa...

11 March 2009
11:38 GMT

Google Chrome 2.0.160.0, Even More Horsepower

As early as the first Beta build, Google Chrome 1.0 indicated a consistent appetite for JS performance, and the Mountain View search giant is committed to the evolution of the underlying V8 JavaScript engine. An illustrative example in this regard is the Google Chrome 2.0.160.0 release, which brings to the table enha...

5 February 2009
07:40 GMT

IE8 Performance vs. Google Chrome and Firefox

With Microsoft making headway towards the gold build of Internet Explorer 8, the Redmond company has to face an ugly truth. Performance-wise, with emphasis on JavaScript performance, the software giant is getting ready to release a browser inferior to what is already available from rivals Google and Mozilla. Microsof...

27 September 2008
07:52 GMT

Mozilla Says It's a Shame IE's Performance Is Falling so Far Behind

With the advent of Google Chrome, Firefox 3.1 Alpha and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the browser wars have been virtually revitalized, with a strong focus on the horsepower delivered by each product, and especially in terms of JavaScript performance. Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, has c...

10 September 2008
13:32 GMT

Firefox 3.1 Is Seven Times Faster than Firefox 3.0

According to Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla, Firefox 3.1, the upcoming minor update to Firefox 3.0, delivers in certain scenarios as much as seven times more performance than its precursor. Schroepfer indicated that in terms of JavaScript, version 3.1 of the open source browser is capable ...

25 August 2008
14:11 GMT

Firefox 3.1 Gets Major JavaScript Speed Boost

The latest Firefox 3.1 nightly-built comes with a new JIT compiler for SpiderMonkey, Gecko's JavaScript engine. The compiler is part of a project called TraceMonkey, which aims at bringing significant improvements in JavaScript performance. The tests so far show major speed boost in JavaScript functions.TraceMon...

25 August 2008
07:18 GMT

Adobe's Standardization Plans for RIA Development Platform Get Crushed

The standardized web development is at a crossroad as the ECMAScript 4.0 draft has been scrapped in favor of the new ECMAScript 3.1 entitled "Harmony". ECMAScript is the standard based on which popular scripting languages like JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript were implemented and ECMAScript 4.0 draft was the standar...

16 August 2008
04:44 GMT

Explosive Mixtures: JavaScript, XHTML and CSS Based Menus

The navigation system features and the functionality of websites represent the key to having more visitors and to assuring clear directions of browsing for relevant pages or content. Practically, the menu of every website could be regarded as a "door" opener for visitors who want to get to pages situated on a certain...

11 June 2008
11:05 GMT

Yahoo! BrowserPlus "Sneak Peek" Release

The bridge between desktop and browser can be filled by available technologies of rich Internet applicationsdevelopment. Practically, the user is capable to interact both with desktop elements and web browser based ones through the functionalities of a RIA (Rich Internet Application). The "Sneak Peek" release of Yah...

30 May 2008
11:29 GMT

A New Free Encyclopedia for Developers

The high speed with which the web evolves leads to the appearance of a large amount of information regarding the principles of new-born development technologies or the improvements of older ones. Indexing that information becomes complex due to the fact that the information flux requires various processing operation...

17 May 2008
07:35 GMT

Hundreds of Thousands of Websites Compromised

Security companies around the world launched an alert concerning a new mass SQL infection which, by the first estimations, had already affected hundreds of thousands of websites. And what's worse isn't necessarily the huge number of compromised pages, but the fact that among the affected ones, we can easily...

24 April 2008
03:47 GMT

Safari 3.1 Now Available. Fastest Web Browser Yet

Mac users and Safari fans should be happy to hear that "the world's best browser" is now "the world's fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs" with the introduction of version 3.1. The update to the Apple-developed web browser is said to allow 1.9 and 1.7 times faster loading than Internet Explorer 7 an...

18 March 2008
10:02 GMT

Java Coming to the iPhone After All

Sun Microsystems is planning to roll out a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone this summer, "some time after June," according to InfoWorld. The virtual machine is said to allow Java apps to run on the both Apple's devices using touchscreen and motion sensing features, the iPhone and iPod touch.The Java ...

11 March 2008
10:59 GMT

Internet Explorer Involved in JavaScript Infection

The new year has come with an avalanche of threats that may seriously harm our computers if we don't protect them as we should. JS_PSYME.AZ has been spotted in the wild by security company Trend Micro, which wrote that this malicious JavaScript affects most Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and eve...

3 January 2008
04:20 GMT

Let Me Introduce You to the First Windows XP Christmas Infection

We all know this had to happen, so here it is: the first Christmas infection which attempts to install on Windows 2000 and Windows XP platforms. JS_REALPLAY.J is a malicious JavaScript that can be dropped on your computer once you visit an infected website used in the attack. And more important, the script attempts t...

26 December 2007
03:36 GMT

Short Introduction to AJAX

AJAX is a web development technique (not a new programming language) that allows you to create faster and more user friendly web applications. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. It changes the way a web page is processed on client side using server side information. Practically, AJAX combines many exi...

17 December 2007
13:21 GMT

Download Ajax View to Monitor JavaScript in IE7

The Ajax View JavaScript Instrumentation Proxy is the end result of the work from Microsoft Research. Essentially the tool is designed to act as a HTTP proxy focused on monitoring the performance and behavior of JavaScript applications within Internet Explorer 7, although Ajax View is not limited to just Microsoft�...

31 August 2007
05:39 GMT

Client-Side Programming

When you are a beginner and you want to create a website, you don't know where to start from and what you need to learn. To create a website, first you need to know what technologies are associated with web design. The most important are HTML and CSS.HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the predominant language a...

21 August 2007
10:35 GMT

iPhone Javascript Is Slow

Although most iPhone independent developers are focusing on how to access more of the device's capabilities despite the difficulties placed in the way by Apple, as work progresses, more and more of them are turning towards practical things.Craig Hockenberry observed that there were significant differences in the...

20 August 2007
07:36 GMT

Special Facebook Version Working on the iPhone

The social networking website, Facebook, has just released a version of its site especially designed to work on the iPhone. This is one of the most welcomed apps for this handset, from all those that have been released until now in order to make it even more user-friendly.The new Facebook interface is capable of slid...

16 August 2007
04:52 GMT

Nokia Launches Widgets on Symbian S60 Devices

Nokia has just announced the introduction of widget support for S60. S60 will be the first mobile software platform that enables the creation of widgets using familiar standards-based Web technologies. Available to all S60 licensees, widget support enhances the Internet experience on a mobile by bringing a personal W...

16 April 2007
08:18 GMT

Writing Code Lines

Despite the fact that softwares like MS Word and OpenOffice are labeled as text editors by many users, there is a confusion in the terminology. A text editor and a text processor are two different things. While the latter deals with simply creating office documents, presentations generally intended for printing, the ...

28 March 2007
08:58 GMT


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