20090701 Google Makes Better JavaScript Code Available
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Google launches new open source Sputnik for JavaScript
The Sputnik test suite requires python in order to run - and is already available as a free download. Whether or not Sputnik will become a new standard by which browser vendors will measure themselves is a question yet to be answered.
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/06/google-launches-new-open-sourc.html
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And RMS Spake, and it Was Good
And it's also a red-letter day when he does, as with his latest missive: "The Javascript Trap". [...] He comes up with some interesting solutions: we need to change free browsers to support freedom for users of pages with Javascript. First of all, browsers should be able to tell the user about nontrivial non-free Javascript programs, rather than running them. Perhaps NoScript could be adapted to do this. Browser users also need a convenient facility to specify Javascript code to use instead of the Javascript in a certain page. RMS: where would we be without him?
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-rms-spake-and-it-was-good.html
Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari
Google offers a site with five JavaScript benchmarks. On each one of these tests, Chrome clearly trounced the competition. I hope benchmarking experts and developers will weigh in with comments about how well these tests represent true JavaScript performance on the Web--either for ordinary sites or for rich Web apps.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Google Chrome is a warning shot over the bows of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
The open source software project, to be detailed later Tuesday at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., should dispel any lingering thoughts that the browser wars are over. To be sure, it is less cutthroat now than in the 1990s, but one of technology's most powerful companies is now on the battlefield.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62045726,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
New direction for 'JavaScript 2'
Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting technology's direction.
Java developers get repository help
Sonatype on Tuesday began offering a tool for Java developers to manage internal Maven-based code repositories and access external Maven repositories. The company's Nexus 1.0 product is a Maven repository manager; the Maven Central Repository itself features a repository for binary artifacts and publicly available project metadata, the company said.
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1255217015&rid=-50
Study: Java still top programming language
Java has its detractors, but according to a recent reading of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, it's still the dominant programming language, with little change in its overall popularity since August 2007. Runners up? C, (Visual) Basic, C++, and PHP.
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