A scripting language that combines Netscape's JavaScript and Microsoft's Jscript with server-side extensions from Borland. Originally known as ECMA-262. See Dynamic HTML.
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- Mozilla tackles XSS vulnerabilities with new technology
- Mozilla tackles XSS vulnerabilities with new technologysounds kinda like SPF, but for JavaScriptVery cool!On another note, any idea's why Firefox doesn't take advantage of the Sandbox framework provided by Vista?Is it because of Vista's market share, to ease cross platform porting, or something else?It's JavaScript not Java ScriptSome purists might...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- ESXX 0.9.20090521 (Windows)
- ESXX, pronounced Essex, is a Web application server that executes Web applications written in JavaScript AKA ECMAscript on the server-side. It's written in Java and has no external dependencies except for J2SE 6.0. Everything else that's required is packaged in one single, executable JAR file, ready to be tested in...
- Software downloads 2009-06-01
- Browser wars: the platform wins
- Browser wars: the platform winsHTML5For anyone not already familiar with HTML5, check out this demo of Gmail using HTML5:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmjxmOtNZCkHTML5 should make it easier to deliver certain classes of applications to all OS platforms, without the need for porting. And as the video shows, these web apps can be launched, just...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- ‘Fastest ECMAScript engine on market’ for Opera
- ‘Fastest ECMAScript engine on market’ for OperaGood to seeIt's good to see that many vendors are focusing on JavaScript performance -- first Google, now Opera. The IE team also made performance a big part of their IE8 redesign, but maybe this will put some pressure on to go further.On...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-06
- News to know: Windows 7; Facebook and OpenID; Patch Tuesday preview
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Ryan Naraine: MS Tuesday heads-up: Critical IE, Exchange flaws Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- 'Fastest ECMAScript engine on market' for Opera
- Developer Jens Lindström writes on the Opera Core Concerns blog that a small team of developers and testers have been working on implementing a new ECMAScript/JavaScript engine for Opera over the past few months named "Carakan." The new project aims to develop "the fastest ECMAScript engine on...
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Regent 1.2 (Windows)
- Eliminate routine code modifications with auto generated regular expressions. From single example Regent creates search and replace regular expression to update all similar code fragments at once. Visual Studio, Microsoft Word, Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, and ECMAScript Regular Expressions syntaxes supported. Version 1.2 adds support for Microsoft Word wildcards and...
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1All part of the MS plan to keep browsers dumbded down. If we had reallygood browsers, how would they get people to use MS proprietary solutions for rich internet applications.RE: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1The title says Firefox 3.0.1The graph...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Microsoft delivers Office for Mac SP1; Will bring back VBA
- Microsoft delivers Office for Mac SP1; Will bring back VBABoo!! Hiss!!Office Macros need to die! Talk about insecurity! What is clear is that this isn't being done for the customers' good, but to perpetuate lock-in...competing products haven't yet fully replicated the (erratic & dangerous) behavior possible with...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?
- Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?RE: Some comments.Yup, that sums it up pretty well. In fact, I think a closer link with WPF was something they were waiting for before rolling out a lot of web apps. Microsoft has something very cool in WPF and...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- What+Microsoft+does+well
- What+Microsoft+does+wellMice, fast food, and jet enginesSo how does a Microsoft keyboard fit into your theory?Or, looking at it from a company twice Microsoft's size at least financially: what is the "core identity" of General Electric?NOTHIINGWindows is garbage.NET is garbageSilverlight is a nonstarterXbox finally made mooney and is getting killed by...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Adobe contributes virtual machine to Mozilla's Tamarin project
- Adobe has contributed its virtual machine to Mozilla's Tamarin project. Under the arrangement, Adobe will contribute source code from its ActionScript Virtual Machine, which uses the scripting language engine in FlashPlayer 9. The virtual machine, now known as Tamarin, will be hosted by Mozilla, which said...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Should Microsoft join or fight the OpenSocial?
- Should Microsoft join or fight the OpenSocial?they will never join ...Microsoft doesn't like the word "Open"*. Google knew what they were doing ;)When Pigs FlyThe probability of Microsoft adopting OpenSocial is about 0.0 for any Windows Live property, in my opinion.As to "Facebook is a closed platform, for now...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Speech Software Development Kit 5.1 5.1.43 (Windows)
- The Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 adds Automation support to the features of the previous version of the Speech SDK. You can now use the Win32 Speech API SAPI to develop speech applications with Visual Basic , ECMAScript and other Automation languages. The SDK also includes freely distributable text-to-speech TTS engines...
- Software downloads 2007-08-21
- Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java
- Sun tries again with consumer-flavored JavaWowAfter Microsoft's unveiling of Silverlight last week, this JavaFX looks absolutely [b]weak[/b]! You would have thought that after all this time they would have been able to come up with something that can actually compare to what MS released.Poor Sun...another scripting language?With so many...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Input Validation of Client-Server Web Applications Through Static Analysis
- While early web applications were created with all data processing done on the server, the expansion in the use of scripting languages embedded in web browsers (specifically, dialects of ECMAscript - JavaScript and JScript) in techniques such as AJAX have allowed for change in the design of web applications. They...
- White papers 2007-04-30
- Adobe swiftly advances Flex into a RIA powerhouse by taking it open source
- I was just telling Coach Wei of Nexaweb the other night that Adobe was being too arrogant, and that more exploitation of open source would make sense for them. Well, darned if it turns out I was making some sense, even after two beers and a crab taco at Fenway...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Where are you Apple?
- Where are you Apple?Maybe they don't want toApple derives the vast majority of its sales from hardware. Of the apps that it does make, only a few mainly in video are categorized in the "pro" area. Apple really cannot go into every promising software area. They have...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Programming Flex 2: ActionScript
- ActionScript is the programming language that the user can use along with MXML to create sophisticated Flex applications. While MXML is an important part of a Flex application, it is mostly used for creating the user interface, and it can go only so far in creating a complete application. For...
- Book chapters 2007-04-01
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