Tag archive: Brendan Eich

The upside to Web-based applications is that, generally, they can be used anywhere a user can get Internet access and a reasonably modern Web browser: most of the time, documents, data, and the application itself are available via the Internet, so users don't have to deal with carting around a computer, finding their files, and configuring software. The downside, of course, is that without decent Internet access, Web-based application… Read More

In a surprise nod to the open source community, software giant Adobe has announced it is contributing its ActionScript Virutal Machine to the open source Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will use the code to create a new open source project called Tamarin with the goal of creating an open source, standardized, high-performance implementation of ECMAScript 4th edition scripting language. If all that leaves you saying “huh?,”… Read More