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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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Most browser makers tout JavaScript performance these days, at least, if they have what to brag about. Unlike most numbers and stats shoved in front of people, JavaScript performance actually matters and modern browsers have made spectacular leaps in speed to keep up with the latest powerful web apps. But since no on... |
1 March 2010
12:50 GMT |
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It looks like Google isn't the only web company with a need for speed. While its efforts border on obsession, another Silicon Valley-based startup turned internet giant is starting to be a contender for the title, one that is quickly becoming Google's main adversary. Facebook has caught the speed bug and se... |
19 February 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome introduced official extension support in December and things kicked off to a good start. There are a few thousands extensions in the online gallery now, some with hundreds of thousands of installs. And with support coming to the stable version of Chrome 4 things looked promising. Yet, Firefox still had... |
2 February 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Personal computers are a relatively new development, yet the pace at which things change in this space make the computers and software of even 10 years ago look antiquated. CPU speed, memory size, everything that has to do with hardware is several times faster and the software has, for the most part, evolved to take... |
26 January 2010
06:18 GMT |
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Firefox 3.6 just came out last week and, among a long list of new features and updates, one thing that Mozilla touted is its performance improvements in several key aspects such as JavaScript rendering, startup time and the overall responsiveness of the software. The people over at Computerworld decided to put ... |
25 January 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Leading provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile market ACCESS announced recently the official launch of its NetFront Browser v4.0, the latest flavor of its browsing solution for mobile phones and Internet-enabled devices. According to the company, the new solution comes with one of the fastest JavaS... |
15 January 2010
06:58 GMT |
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JavaScript performance has become the megahertz war of web browsers and each vendor is trying to one up the other in this area. This can be largely attributed to Google's quest for improved web app performance, which it pursued with its own Chrome web browser. When Google Chrome came out, it left all other brow... |
14 January 2010
09:53 GMT |
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Nine years after its previously launched version, ECMA International has announced the release of ECMAScript 5, which was approved as a web standard by the ECMA International's General Assembly at the start of December. This will bring many new features to ECMA-based languages like JScript (Microsoft) and JavaSc... |
15 December 2009
06:36 GMT |
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There’s no way around it, Microsoft needs to make the next iteration of Internet Explorer, IE9, as fast as Google Chrome, if not even faster. As a general rule, Google Chrome evolves at a much faster pace compared to Internet Explorer, after all, the Mountain View-based search giant has gone through t... |
4 December 2009
04:05 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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