Posts tagged javascript

Job’s (a bit) wrong

May 2nd

Posted by Detro in IT / Comp-Sci / Code

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This is a set of commets to some of the asserts made by Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Flash.

Safari has just ~5.5% of web users share

[...] Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers. [...]

Ehm, what about Netscape Gecko? It’s not just Firefox and it’s share of web users, much larger than the one of Safari, but also the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is very much involved in building (W3C) standards like HTML5 et similia.
I can see that you used the word “Almost”, but that’s not a good start: Steve, let’s try to be more fair here.
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3 o’clock javascript

Mar 28th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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I was writing some code to react at a textarea.onKeyUp. I take the size of the current textarea.val().length, update an element and do some other stuff.

Yawn
yawn

The first version of the code looked like:

$('#message').keyup(function(e){
   $('#chars_num').html( new_len );
   $('#sms_num').html( Math.floor($('#message').val().length / 161) +1) );
});

Working good, but was clearly slow: every keystroke was “giving back the cursor” too slowly for a fast typer like me. I went to take a look at twitter, and their text box was WAY FASTER.
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Google Chrome: Is it the next generation of Browsers?

Sep 2nd

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Google Chrome
I don’t have an answer to this, it’s too early (we don’t even have a screenshot of it). But I strongly suggest to take a look a the Google Chrome Comic Book: a very new, fresh, funny and precise (!!!) way to introduce an incoming software.

They discuss a lot of different topics:

  • Problems they wanted to solve
  • Performance
  • Process Isolation
  • Javascript VM and Performance
  • Sandboxing
  • Phishing and Malware
  • UI principles

Very interesting. And, again, very innovative.

Ah, the Rendering Engine they chosen is… WebKit (what a surprise!!! ;-) ) and… it’s fully open source.

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HTML 5: I still love the Web

Nov 22nd

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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HTML
Who knows me better, knows that I love the Web. So, I was seeking for info about the next generation of web.

What I mean with “next generation”? I mean “what we can expect to see in the future”.
And the best place, is to go were people (with good skills) go and start to discuss and brainstorm about this stuff.

I found a very interesting pre-RFC: HTML 5 Working Draft.
All the amazing and cool stuff are coming are there and is pointless for me to report them (just one: Client-Side Persistency!!! COOOOL!). But it’s interesting to see WHO is working on this. I mean, who is ALREADY thinking about what we will have in the “next World Wide Web”.

…
Editor:
Ian Hickson, Google, ian@hixie.ch

© Copyright 2004-2007 Apple Computer, Inc., Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software ASA.

You are granted a license to use, reproduce and create derivative works of this document.

Ian Hickson. He is famous in “our” world but I never spent a minute taking a look to his CV. And his “poor” (for a person that does what he does) web site.

Tripping around his web page, he is doing his favourite work… in the best place possible to do this (Google).

Besides, another interesting thing to notice is the name of the companies working with him (or, better, that seems to own this VERY IMPORTANT document): Apple, Mozilla and Opera. Why Google is missing if the they pay the Employee?

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