Wikio - JavaScript

Was JavaScript a mistake? (InfoWorld Daily)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:46:40 GMT

Growing less convinced that IT is approaching Web-based applications the right way, Neil McAllister questions the very concept of an all-purpose programming language that's designed by committee. "If nobody ever managed to come up with the ultimate, perfect language for systems programming, what makes us think we can do it for the Web?" he asks in Was JavaScript a...

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How to recursively traverse a DOM element in JavaScript (Brian Di Croce)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:14:57 GMT

Suppose you want to traverse all the child nodes of a DOM element in order to do something with them, such as disabling them for example. Here’s one way to do it. function DisableDOMElementTree(rootDOMElement) { EnableDisableDOMElement(rootDOMElement, true); } function EnableDisableDOMElement(currentDOMElement, isDisabled) { // There's nothing to do if the DOM element is [...]

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Ecma Technical Committee 39 (TC39) Coalesces on Future Direction Of Web Programming Language (Business Wire)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:00 GMT

GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Ecma International Technical Committee 39 (TC39), a standards body that influences implementations such as JavaScript, JScript and ActionScript, has

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Fixing a Gap in Javascript (Solitude)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:42:40 GMT

An interesting problem: a bunch of Struts Nested tags generate HTML. Separately, we write some Javascript that makes use of getElementById() to find some of the generated elements. This works in Internet Explorer, but fails miserably in FireFox. Why? Well, it turns out that Struts Nested tags generate elements that have a name attribute but not [...]

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ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead (CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:19:49 GMT

TopSpin writes “Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript programming language, has announced that ECMA Technical Committee 39 has abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification in favor of a more limited specification dubbed ‘Harmony,’ or ECMAScript 3.1. A split has existed among the members of this committee, including Adobe and Microsoft, regarding the future...

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Feud Over JavaScript's Future Ends, New Proposals Push It Forward (Wired)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Several of the web's heavyweights -- Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google among them -- have been debating which direction to take ECMAScript, the programming language which serves as the basis for JavaScript and powers much of the interactivity on the web. The group has come to an agreement and started a new initiative called the Harmony Project to further enhance the language....

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Feud Over JavaScript’s Future Ends, New Proposals Push It Forward (Global Intellect)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Several of the web’s heavyweights — Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google among them — have been debating which direction to take ECMAScript, the programming language which serves as the basis for JavaScript and powers much of the interactivity on the web. The group has come to an agreement and started a new initiative called the [...]

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Fun at SIGGRAPH (James Gosling: on the Java Road)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:00:02 GMT

I'm spending this week in LA at SIGGRAPH. It's really great to be at a conference where I can concentrate on learning. Lots of interesting papers and folks doing cool experimental stuff. One group that I ran into, OnLatte , had whacked together the mechanical bits of a flatbed scanner, and old inkjet printer and some bits of electronics to come up with a wild printer that made images jetting caramel...

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gopher away in JavaScript (fullasagoog)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:13:31 GMT

I was at the University of Minnesota when Gopher, the Internet protocol, was in its prime. It was created by a professor at the University of Minnesota you see, and I had to help implement gopher services. When the Web kicked off, they still tried to hang on, but made the fatal mistake of not having [...]

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Hackers Want to Be Your (Malicious) Friend (Red Orbit )

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:00:26 GMT

By Jon Swartz SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook isn't just popular with consumers and marketers. Hackers are finding flaws in computer-programming language JavaScript and planting malicious code in the profiles on the popular social-networking site and its rivals.

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Hackers want to be your (malicious) friend (USA Today)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:45:01 GMT

Facebook isn't just popular with consumers and marketers. Hackers are finding flaws in computer-programming language JavaScript ...

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Making a website more dynamic using Javascript (WatkissOnline - Stewart's Blog)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:05:59 GMT

I have used Javascript quite a bit in the past, but not so much recently. My first programming in Javascript was shortly after the first release 1.0 during 1996 when I was able to develop an early interactive quiz (since replaced by the server side program used on first aid quiz website). The quiz [...]

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Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us (Prototype JavaScript Framework)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:48:00 GMT

We’re very happy to announce a new addition to the Prototype bookshelf: core committer Andrew Dupont ’s Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us published by Apress.

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Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions: Part 2 (WebReference News)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:27:14 GMT

Any value that you use is of a certain type. In JavaScript, there are the following primitive data types: Number, String, Boolean, Undefined and Null. Any value that doesn't belong to one of the five primitive types listed above is an object. By Stoyan Stefanov. 0811

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Google Docs going to get Table of Content and more (TechSpot)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:35:06 GMT

Not official but Google Operating system blog updates that these features are ready to be implimented. FOr exampleif you want to generate a table of contents from the headings of a document Open the document first Type in javascript:mr(”TocSettings”);void(0); in the address bar. Right after this you should be able to see TOC pop up . More things likethesarus,britanica [...]

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Method Chaining Part 2 (davidflanagan.com)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:50:22 GMT

The comments on my last post about method chaining in JavaScript were spectacular, and I want to publicly thank all who took the time to read my code and think about it. The final version of the code (which you...

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The easiest way to learn to code like a JavaScript Ninja (Alexei@Nitobi)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:41:46 GMT

Today our video Live-Lessons came out featuring over 8 hours of video instruction with complete code samples covering topics in JavaScript and general Ajax development. We’re really proud of this package and think that many of our customers would probably enjoy this material. If you are interested in honing your JavaScript skills, understanding more about [...]

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LiMo aims DBus at Android (LinuxDevices.com)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:26:49 GMT

Movial announced it had joined the LiMo Foundation and will soon release open-source code that it expects to be deployed on LiMo phones. Movial's Browser D-Bus Bridge translates HTML and Javascript commands to D-Bus (Desktop Bus) to create "mashups" of applications and services, including Android-like Google apps mashups, says Movial.

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Evert Pot's Blog: Preventing XSS in Javascript strings (Revenue Source)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:49:54 GMT

Evert Pot has pointed out a handy tool (http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/article/197) that can make escaping strings in and out of your application...

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Method chaining in JavaScript inheritance hierarchies (davidflanagan.com)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:48:48 GMT

In the 5th edition of my JavaScript book I made the embarrassing mistake of recommending a constructor and method chaining technique that only works for shallow class hierarchies--it works when class B extends A, for example, but not when...

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