The newest version of Internet Explorer 8 is still the slowest big browser when it comes to JavaScript. But it has significantly closed the gap since last summer's second beta, benchmark scores show.
Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA (rich Internet application) and AJAX frameworks, Silverlight arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 (see my October 2007 review) manipulated its multimedia-savvy, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) user interface using JavaScript. Silverlight 1.1, which added support for compiled .Net languages and supported more of the .Net API, was available at that time only as an alpha test.
Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (AJAX), the technology of choice today for building powerful, interactive Web applications, comes at a price. If developers aren't careful they will pay that price in security.
Mozilla will probably add a third beta to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1 to get a better handle on remaining bugs and give several new features, including a faster JavaScript engine and a private browsing mode, more testing time, the company's browser director said Tuesday.
The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate the need for using plug-ins to view video in a browser.
Security vendor Fortify today said it has identified a JavaScript-related vulnerability that lets an attacker hijack a Mozilla or Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser session.
The code to take over a user’s computer via Internet Explorer is out, but a patch is not. All the user has to do is go to a Web site that takes advantage of a JavaScript vulnerability in Microsoft’s browser. The solution? Disable “active scripting” - or use a different browser.
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Be on the lookout for the latest Firefox update (2.0.0.14) that fixes a JavaScript bug. Mozilla put out the critical patch late Wednesday and it should be showing up through Firefox's automatic updates over the next several days. Cisco is getting in on the patch parade this week too with an update to its Network Admission Control (NAC) system and Apple has finally patched the bug that helped with a $10,000 hacker prize.
Adobe Systems Inc. Tuesday acknowledged that all versions of its popular PDF software, including editions for Windows, the Mac and Linux, contain at least one, and possibly two, critical vulnerabilities.
The mobile version of the popular Firefox Web browser is now available in beta release from Mozilla, but only on one mobile device. One big addition: a much faster JavaScript compiler.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 does a poor job managing Web content, leading to extraneous JavaScript, difficulties implementing complex forms of navigation, and problems when companies use Web content that needs to be translated into multiple languages, an analyst firm called CMS Watch says in a new report that evaluates content management products.
Security experts today urged Adobe Reader and Acrobat users to disable the JavaScript option until a patch is issued for a just-disclosed vulnerability.
Microsoft on Tuesday will reveal that it is now participating in the OpenAjax Alliance, joining with other members to make the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web scripting technique more interoperable.
A Microsoft JavaScript library for rendering three-dimensional environments played an instrumental role in helping game developer Ubisoft build a version of its Assassin's Creed Pirates that can be run in the Web browser.
Even if text editors have been prominent in Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (AJAX) development, developers nonetheless would benefit from an IDE, panelists agreed at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Wednesday.