JavaScript

Simon Willison snuck in a last-minute topic change, and is now going to give the server-side Javascript talk. The news of the past 24 hours is ChromeOS. For the first time in years, someone's re-thinking how an OS should work. With...

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...own site. This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough. 675512...

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Robert Nyman walks through some of the more subtle low-level features of Javascript, and some of the idioms that have emerged. Comparisons: Understanding identity (===) versus equality (==). Boolean expressions: Understanding how...

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...in Brighton this morning (fullfrontal09 on twitter). First up is Ajaxian and Yahoo Chris Heilmann on Javascript security. The main theme is let's use Javascript sensibly and don't just blame the language when other things are creating the...

In this article: Caja, Ajax, HTML, John Resig, Jquery, SQL, and Brighton

...descriptions of the new engine made it sound quite similar to the V8 engine used in Chrome; the new IE9 JavaScript engine will compile JavaScript into native code, just like in V8, and the technique it will use to speed up the...

In this article: Microsoft, V8, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, HTML 4.01, Web applications, Google Maps, and Google Apps

...programming with Objective-C. It's similar to JSCocoa, but it's been designed to offer a more complete set of JavaScript commands. It offers a full JavaScript parser/serializer, which allows for extensive use of JavaScript coding. If you're...

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Yesterday I faced a problem with a PoC I did some months ago. I added a ratings feature to SharePoint 2007 Lists using JQuery. There were a conflict caused by sp.js and jquery.js using prototype methods. I just followed the recomendations...

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...we haven't even conceived of yet," he said. Activities now done in Flash would be done in the browser via JavaScript, Eich said. Such enhancements to JavaScript would "take over" if Microsoft decides to support them in its Internet Explorer...

In this article: Brendan Eich, Ecmascript, Java, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Mozilla Foundation, and Microsoft

...code through a text box or a RESTful API. The Closure Library provides something akin to a standard JavaScript library - generally lacking in JavaScript - to build large, complex web applications. The library is server-agnostic and designed...

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...enable JavaScript programs to run faster. But writing, debugging, and optimizing heavy-duty JavaScript can be difficult--in part because a given JavaScript program sometimes works differently on different browsers. Google's open-source...

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