Google Achieves First Milestone For Dart, The New JavaScript Rival
JavaScript, as a language for web applications, is widely popular and is used by a staggering majority of the apps we find on the web. Moreover, all browser vendors actively support the language. However, Google is unsatisfied with the performance of JavaScript and is trying to bring its own language, Dart, into the competition. To that end, it recently completed the first milestone.
New JavaScript Benchmarks For The Modern Web Introduced By Google
Developers have been clamouring for new JavaScript benchmarks for long, as the web has evolved and changed significantly over time. Google has finally decided to heed the plea and has rolled out Octane, a new JavaScript benchmarking suite.
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Top 5 Front End Frameworks [Infographic]
Front end frameworks are very popular and widely used on the web. In more than one ways, these frameworks have made the lives of coders and web designers a lot easier. They include the likes of jQuery which is the most popular JavaScript library, Prototype, Struts, Bootstrap and and JavaScript. Now, a very interesting infographics furnishes the details about these front end frameworks.
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[Tutorial] How To Enable Or Allow JavaScript On A Mac
Whether you are using Mozilla’s Firefox or Apple’s Safari Web browser on your favorite Mac laptop or computer, you may enable or allow JavaScript in order to permit dynamic WebPages to show accurately. JavaScript mainly makes websites more interactive to the peoples surfing the webpage. Nevertheless, enabling JavaScript has some disadvantages. It may open a door for the viruses to insert into your laptop/computer. In both web browsers, the JavaScript standard settings are organized in the favorite’s window. Normally, you may be either a standard or administrator user on your laptop or computer to enable or allow JavaScript.
Google Integrates Dart Programming Language In New Version Of Chromium Browser
Google has been taking it’s Dart programming language quite seriously. Apparently, Google thinks that in the future, the language will come about to play a crucial role for browsers. And as such, Google’s hopes are not that misplaced. Dart has indeed the potential to replace JavaScript one day but that’s still a possibility. To give the developers a true ‘feel’ of how it would feel, Google has released a new version of Chromium browser with Dart virtual machine built within in.
RIM Announces BlackBerry BBX
lackBerry maker Research In Motion has unveiled its next-generation mobile operating system, BBX, which will provide a single platform for application development on a range of devices and the Canadian company will use the same OS for its smartphones, tablets and embedded systems, including those in cars. It will include BBX-OS and incorporate support for BlackBerry cloud services and development environments for HTML5 as well as native developers and this mobile platform will also be lending support to those apps that have been developed with the tools available for the BlackBerry PlayBook such as Native SDK, Adobe AIR/Flash and WebWorks/HTML5. BBX will come incorporated with the new BlackBerry Cascades UI framework for advanced graphics and the user interface of BBX has been developed by the studio The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), acquired by RIM more than a year ago……………..
Dart The JavaScript Alternative
Google unveils Dart, its new programming language for building web applications and it’s a new platform developed with simplicity, efficiency, and scalability in mind, combining powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into easy to define code. Google says that its new language will assist developers by helping create a structured yet flexible language for web programming for and ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and also environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution………………..
Microsoft Windows Server 8 And Azure Platform Now Available For Developers
Microsoft is making available to testers preview versions of its Windows Server 8 and Microsoft is making available to testers a developer preview of Windows Server 8, the complement to its Windows 8 client. Microsoft says Windows Server 8 will be heavily influenced by its experience running Windows Azure, the cloud based operating system that Microsoft runs in its own data centers. Azure concepts and functionality will be coming to Windows Server 8 with the new Hyper-V and Microsoft did not say when Windows Server 8 will ship…………..
Adobe Release Preview Version Of Edge For Creating HTML5 Web Animations
Adobe announced the launch of an early preview version of a new application called Adobe Edge, which is designed to allow web developers to easily create animations and other motion-based content using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and this tool will kill Adobe Flash. It’s the first professional-grade HTML5 editing tool on the market and is currently available for free. dobe is positioning the new software as a complement to its Flash and Dreamweaver offerings for Web-based content production………………
Windows 8 Build 7989 Leaked
There’s been another leaked build of Windows 8, this time build 7989 and was first reported as being available in the private forums of a beta website with new virtual keyboard, references to SMS support, per-feature licensing, geo-location. New screenshots of Windows 8 build 7989 shows a new background and boot screen along with the return of the Microsoft betta fish and the betta fish was used back in Windows 7 beta as a wallpaper and soon turned into a mascot for Microsoft’s beta stages of Windows 7. The formal announcements about Windows 8 from Microsoft are expected to be made this autumn and Microsoft will unveil all the new features of the OS and also detail the timescale for closed and public beta programmes. The final release of the OS is expected around October 2012…………
Microsoft Release Windows 8
There’ll be two kinds of applications for Windows 8, one that runs in a traditional desktop nd the other pseudo-mobile apps based on HTML5 and Javascript. Keyboard and mouse will still be options for both sets of programs, but there are multiple virtual sets of keys for different form factors, including a split keyboard for vertical slate use and multitasking is simply a matter of swiping running apps into the center of the screen………
Google Searches Around The Globe
Using WebGL and different color crayons for each language, the coders at Mountain View have put together the above Search Globe, which presents a single day’s worth of Google queries in a beautiful, skyscraper-infused visualization and it will let you twist and turn the model world for a closer exploration of global Google use………
BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Official
BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 have been made official as RIM kicks off BlackBerry World in Orlando and the phone packs a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor that has only a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen with a 287dpi pixel density to worry about.On the back is a five megapixel camera and inside is 8GB of internal storage (with microSD expansion) and NFC circuitry and featuring a stainless steel circumference and a fiberglass back, while up front of course it makes room for a full QWERTY keyboard………..
RIM BlackBerry 7 OS
RIM announces BlackBerry 7 OS with better browser and BlackBerry Balance, but no legacy support and theuser experience is promised to be both easier and faster, voice-activated searches are available for content both on your phone and the web and also the browser has been significantly enhanced with new features like a JIT JavaScript compiler and HTML5 Video support.BlackBerry Balance is also part of the new OS which allows users to compartmentalize their personal and professional lives into neat and separate piles of content………..
Saurik Launched Cydget 0.9.4000 for iPhone Lockscreen Widgets
Saurik has launched the latest version of Cydget, version 0.9.4000. For those who don’t know, Cydget provides a comprehensive replacement for WinterBoard Lock Widgets, allow developers and web designers to take control of the lock screen using either native code or HTML with JavaScript and Cycript, allowing flexible access to Objective-C.
