Neowin News Feed for: Javascript

Microsoft has released TypeScript 0.9

Brad Sams — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:10:16 +0100

Microsoft has announced that it has reached the 0.9 milestone release of TypeScript and have added a bunch of features and tooling capabilities to the platform as they march on towards 1.0 Read more...

jQuery 2.0 adding support for making Windows 8 apps

John Callaham — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:34:05 +0000

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming 2.0 version of the popular open source JavaScript library jQuery will add full support for the creation of apps for Windows 8. Read more...

Mozilla: No iOS app until Apple opens up

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:51:29 +0000

Jay Sullivan, has said that Mozilla will not offer a browser on iOS until Apple allows third-party rendering engines, a move that will displease many Firefox fans. Read more...

PC component company Syba seemingly compromised

Paul Ferson — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:12:41 +0000

It seems that Syba, a fairly well-known PC components manufacturer, has been compromised by a bit of JavaScript based trickery capable of rerouting data and generally messing up your time online. Read more...

Microsoft introduces TypeScript programming language

John Callaham — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:04:05 +0100

Microsoft announced a new general purpose programming language which it calls Typescript, which the company designed to add to the features of the JavaScript language. Read more...

Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript

Paul Ferson — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:36:07 +0100

A developer has built an emulator for the N64 console using only JavaScript, allowing you the ability to access it online. Now you can relive your 90s games using only a web browser. Read more...

Could Facebook be abusing advertisements for more profit?

Paul Ferson — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:54:27 +0100

A claim from a company advertising on Facebook suggests that the company was seeking to exploit them for profit. They allege most of the ad clicks coming from cash-hungry Facebook bots. Read more...

IE 10 JavaScript improvements in Windows 8 explained

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:04:44 +0100

In a new post on the Internet Explorer developer blog, Microsoft goes over some of the changes it has made to Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 in terms of improving JavaScript performance. Read more...

Shumway: Mozilla wants to virtualize Flash

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:07:33 +0100

A new open source project backed by Mozilla aims at making Flash run within a browser standard environment: no need to install external plug-ins anymore. That's it, if the project succeeds. Read more...

Mozilla preps Marketplace public beta

Tyler Holman — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:16:42 +0100

Mozilla is getting ready to move Mozilla Marketplace into public beta over the next few weeks, bringing a (sorta) platform neutral app platform to users worldwide, and making Firefox 99% more awesome. Read more...

Adobe acquire Nitobi Software and Typekit

Paul Ferson — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:36:08 +0100

Adobe Software has announced two business acquisitions today, with Typekit and Nitobi Software, and appears to be pushing into the HTML5 and tablet space. Read more...

Google releases extension to detect risky Javascript behavior

James Woodfin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:05:54 +0100

Google has released a new extension for its Google Chrome browser. According to their security blog, Google calls the extension DOM Snitch. According to Google, everyday applications that rely on the web are becoming increasingly... Read more...

Internet Explorer 9 RTM now available

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:48:27 +0000

Internet Explorer 9 has been under development for the past year, going through a number of platform previews, two betas. After a year-long wait, Microsoft finally hit the latest Release Candidate milestone with Internet Explorer... Read more...

Internet Explorer 9 beta benchmarked: how does it stack up?

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:33:45 +0100

Earlier Today Microsoft announced and released Internet Explorer 9 beta, but how exactly does it stack up to other browsers? Neowin put Internet Explorer 9 and the top four browsers to the test in a... Read more...

Firefox's upcoming JavaScript engine uses Webkit code

Benjamin Rubenstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:01 +0000

It's no secret that Firefox, which was once the fastest browser out there, has begun falling behind in the JavaScript speed race. Browsers, like Google Chrome and Opera, now make Firefox seem sluggish by comparison.... Read more...

Mozilla and Microsoft Battle Over JavaScript

Sagittarius — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:29:08 +0000

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Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich, creator of the popular scripting language ECMAScript, better known as JavaScript, and Microsoft's Chris Wilson, platform architect of Microsoft's Internet Explorer platform team, are trading heated rhetoric over the proposed next... Read more...

Exclusive: Fresh Javascript Browser Exploit

dbfriends — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:32:16 +0100

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Hot on the heels of an exploit which allowed Javascript popups to appear in front of another site, Neowin has learned of another, potentially more dangerous, use for the script. The latest problem,... Read more...

Bug opens up Javascript browsers to hackers

Toxicfume — Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:17:17 +0100

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Thanks to prasanth for keeping us up to date. A RECENTLY-DISCOVERED vulnerability opens up Javascript-enabled browsers to make network PCs available to an external attacker. But Microsoft has chosen to... Read more...

Hotmail vulnerable to JavaScript exploit

Toxicfume — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:10:18 +0100

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A hacker has developed a method of bypassing the JavaScript filtering mechanisms of Hotmail, in the latest security flap to hit Microsoft's Web-based email service. ObLiviON has sent details of a sample... Read more...