javascript

JavaScript approval slooowly moves ahead..."After 3 comes 5: The European Ecma industry association, the organisation responsible for standardising the JavaScript web language as well as JScript (Microsoft) and ActionScript (Adobe), has now approved ECMAScript version 5.

JavaScript beyond the browser..."This has been a big year for JavaScript. New, fast engines have tested their legs. Libraries have matured. With the ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the language is growing. However, the language remains largely in exile, to only be used in Web browsers. This year has marked a resurgence of efforts to make JavaScript useful outside the browser. This was patently obvious at this year's first European JavaScript conference, jsconf.eu.... [more]

Google opens some dev tools to get a sense of Closure..."Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company's most popular web applications. The search giant has opened the source code of its comprehensive JavaScript library collection and is making it available to third-party developers for widespread adoption. Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools.... [more]

Is the best mobile platform based on JavaScript?

Follow the code in web development, and you may be surprised at what you find...

Are web apps the way to go? Ars Technica examines the ins and outs with JavaScript..."During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox web browser and its rich ecosystem of add-ons as an example, Shuttleworth suggested that the Linux community could deliver a lot of extra value by making scriptable automation and plugin capabilities available... [more]

A detailed look inside a JavaScript-based desktop app...

This is an article that can apply to "innovation" for the broader Linux ecosystem... "A couple things recently (combined with writing this post the other day) made me think about the difficulties in bringing change to the linux desktop.

If you look under the hood of the majority of today’s Web 2.0 applications you shouldn’t be surprised to find Linux all over the place. Since a Web app runs in the browser, by definition it doesn’t matter what your host operating system happens to be. What does matter to the user is the responsiveness of the interface and how well it does the job.

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update of the open-source web browser.