With the start of October I’ll be working at Google. It has been a long process over last couple of months and I have been looking forward to starting since the first email.
Google has hired a lot of really bright people lately and getting a chance to work with some of them is very inspiring.
I [...]
Opera web browser has broken the chains of ad-ware. The desktop version is now free.
Opera is the fastest browser on the earth. It has excellent HTML, XHTML, XML, DOM, CSS, and JS support. It also supports SVG tiny.
Typed programming can be nice but when you have to write something like this things have gone too far:
Microsoft.Msn.Hotmail.SortBy _sortBy = (Microsoft.Msn.Hotmail.SortBy)
Enum.Parse(typeof(Microsoft.Msn.Hotmail.SortBy), aSortBy);
Compared to a dynamic typed language:
var _sortBy = aSortBy;
Last night I looked a bit at Atlas and its Quick Start tutorials. With the risk of sounding like I hate Microsoft I’ll write down some thoughts…
Atlas is nice. I really like a lot of it. There are tons of things that I don’t like but the initial reaction is that this might end up [...]
Over at the IE Blog:
IE 7 implements a native XMLHTTPRequest object for Javascript applications, instead of requiring an ActiveXObject to be created. This also means XMLHTTPRequest will function on machines that have ActiveX disabled.
Thank you Dean.
With the upcoming release of Firefox 1.5 Mozilla have decided to increase their JavaScript version number to 1.6. There are basically three new features since 1.5:
ECMAScript 4 XML
Array Extras
Array and String generics
Array and String generics means that some of the methods that are available on Array.prototype and String.prototype are now also available as static methods [...]
I’m not entirely sure when Mozilla started to support for each loops but I guess it was part of the E4X code checkins. Anyway, I was totally shocked when I saw it and I fired up a quick test.
var o = {a: “A”, b: “B”, c: “C”};
for each (var v in o) {
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