Tag archive: JavaScript

As mentioned on the official Google Chrome Blog this week, the Chrome team has pushed out a stable version of Chrome 17 to all users of the popular Web browser. Detailed extensively in a previous article, Chrome 17 brings pre-rendering to the browser and has the ability to start loading pages as the user is typing the search query or URL into the omnibox. The browser makes these judgments based of the Web history of the user, but only analyzes… Read More

Google has leveled-up its index capabilities and can now deal with AJAX/JavaScript. What that can mean is you may have to watch what you write in public forums. Websites that use a third-party commenting system, such as Intense Debate or Facebook Comments implemented using AJAX/ JavaScript programming, will now show up in Google search results. The new development was first caught by digital inspiration and later confirmed by Matt Cutts who… Read More

Apple may have promised a new iOS version to coincide with the launch of the iPad 2 on Friday, but the Cupertino company gave fans an early treat on Wednesday when it released iOS 4.3 two days early. As we found out last week, the update brings Wi-Fi hotspot capability, enhancements for AirPlay and better compatibility with Apple TV, but we were more interested in another feature: Apple’s Nitro engine. Transplanted from the desktop version of… Read More

Google's first Chrome OS notebook was unveiled only three days ago, but as promised, it’s already been delivered to a lucky handful for a test run. And lucky for us, those handful are reporting on their findings. First of all, let’s review the specs announced at the December 7 Chrome event. The notebook has a 12-inch display with a full-sized keyboard, as well as an large, clickable touchpad, and built-in webcam. It features 3G and Wi-Fi… Read More

Crankshaft can speed up Chrome by a factor of two, giving users a better and faster response to loading web pages that rely heavily on JavaScript.  The news was announced on Google's Chromium Blog by software engineers Kevin Millikin and Florian Schneider. They write, “Crankshaft uses adaptive compilation to improve both start-up time and peak performance. The idea is to heavily optimize code that is frequently executed and not waste… Read More

A massive security breach on Twitter this morning saw thousands of users being sent links to porn sites. If you visited the site this morning, you probably were greeted by several unusual tweets from friends displaying lines of JavaScript. Scroll your mouse over them and you would have become the next victim in this attack. Twitter has now fixed this, making the site safe to visit again. Here's what was going on: An internet worm was… Read More

Software giant Microsoft is aiming to ratchet up the competition in the Web browser wars, today launching a public beta of Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft has been teasing the browser for some time with relatively featureless developer previews that have focused on performance and improving the browsers rather lackluster record for standards support. But with the public beta, Microsoft has also taken the wraps off a spate of new features… Read More

Norway's Opera Software has released version 10.5 of its Opera Web browser, rolling in a new JavaScript engine and making a rather daring claim: that Opera 10.5 is the fastest browser available for Windows. The new version is launching just as Microsoft is activating a new browser ballot to more than 200 million Internet users in Europe, offering them an option to set up a browser other than Internet Explorer as their default Windows Web… Read More

Firefox 3.5 was released last month with plenty of fanfare, but already Mozilla has had to issue a warning of a critical JavaScript flaw in the new browser. The problem lies in the just-in-time (JIT) component of the JavaScript tool, and an exploit could let an attacker remotely execute code on the system – and a working exploit has been released. JIT is part of TraceMonkey, which was added for this release of the browser.… Read More