Tag: javascript

Microsoft Sabotage

You may have been misled, but now that everyone can see almost all of the primary sources (the remaining documents are hidden behind Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Ecma firewalls), please stop repeating falsehoods about either my conduct as TG1 Convenor, or the treatment of dissent by the majority favoring ES4 in TG1. If you have any documents to publish that shed light on Microsoft’s actions and intentions in Ecma TC39-TG1, I welcome them.

microsoft is unsurprisingly trying to block EcmaScript 4, a competitor to their Silverlight efforts

GData Write APIs

In a notable but understated move, Google announced yesterday the availability of the GData JavaScript Client Library for Calendar. While on the surface this may seem like just another wrapper for the Google Calendar API like the ones provided for PHP and Java it’s actually a lot more interesting. Why? Because it’s one of the first examples of the next generation client-side APIs: one that doesn’t just let you fetch data, it lets you write data as well.

first js api that allows writes, too. at least for gdata

jQuery for JS programmers

jQuery isn’t just another library—there are enough interesting ideas in there to teach even the most hardened of JavaScript programmers some new tricks.

Fuzzing for correctness

This pair of checks doesn’t find all decompiler bugs, of course, but it finds quite a few of them. jsfunfuzz has a few other correctness checks for things like unnecessary parentheses in decompiled code and bogus results from object uneval.

i wonder if this works for all js engines

Mozilla freeze day

landed in mozilla 1.9: “full zoom” functionality from Gecko to chrome; Support for ‘oncopy’, ‘onpaste’ and ‘oncut’ events, support for client-side access to the contents of local files via input type=”file”

Universal Web Runtimes

Mozilla strategy is to team (either directly or indirectly) with Microsoft, Mono, and Adobe enable every browser and every device that runs Flash to also be able to run applications written in Python, Ruby, and the latest version of JavaScript.

new directions for the mozilla runtime, including outfitting ie with a capable js implementation

Rhino

DOM support in rhino. eventually, this could be used for unit testing

Firebug for iPhone

implemented via a intercepting proxy

Extracting Browser History

changing the color of links for sites you’ve visited. A piece of javascript on a webpage can view the color of these links to determine whether you’ve visited a site.

clever. now this is a real privacy concern, unlike pictures on the street.

JavaScript speed test

No one should care about JavaScript performance. But if you do, this page will help you get a feel for which operations are fast and which are slow.