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nb1 writes "After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars. JavaScript, which lets developers create everything from basic Web site menus to online spreadsheet applications, was born in the mid-1990s when Microsoft's Internet Explorer challenged the incumbent browser, Netscape's Navigator. IE won that war, but now it faces its own challenge from the heir to the Navigator throne, Mozilla's Firefox, along with upstarts including Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and Opera. All the challengers tout JavaScript performance as a major part of their competitive attack--even to the point of naming their JavaScript engines built into their browsers: Chrome's V8, Firefox's TraceMonkey, Opera's Futhark and upcoming Carakan, and Safari's newly branded Nitro, which is Apple's version of WebKit's Squirrelfish.
Microsoft's tests of page-loading speeds gave it the edge over Chrome and Firefox. But page-loading speed isn't everything
(Credit: Microsoft)Though IE lags all these rivals in JavaScript performance, Microsoft does care about performance overall and JavaScript performance specifically. Even as Microsoft launched a brand-new browser version, Internet Explorer 8, on Thursday, however, it's also clear the company has a big difference of opinion about the matter.
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Posted by Raven on Thursday, March 19, 2009 @ 04:02:51 EDT (1617 reads) ( | Score: 0)
IBM to buy Sun, owners of MySQL?
kguske writes "NEW YORK (AP) - Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) shares soared Wednesday after a published report said International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is in preliminary talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash.
Sun owns MySQL."
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 @ 12:05:05 EDT (1196 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Why Windows Safe Mode Isn't So Safe
nb1 writes "Windows has, for many years, come with a special mode you can load at boot called Safe Mode. The idea is that non-essential services and software don't load in safe mode and so it can be useful in diagnosing system problems.
You might assume that it can be useful in fixing malware infections and you'd be right, but not in all cases. As McAfee's Avert Labs points out in a blog entry, it's possible for malware to set itself up to load even in Safe Mode.
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Includes a matching forum theme.
PSD file included for the header and topic icons.
Posted by Raven on Sunday, March 15, 2009 @ 15:07:26 EDT (713 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Your_Account - Edit Points Mod 1.0
trunks writes "ClanPad / PHP-Clans.com have just released a mod for phpnuke / RavenNuke™. This mod will allow site admins to edit a users points from within the 'Edit User' administration panel.
DESCRIPTION: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in ModSecurity, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). Successful exploitation requires that PDF XSS protection is enabled (disabled by default).
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Posted by Raven on Thursday, March 12, 2009 @ 17:09:00 EDT (1026 reads) (Read More... | 1287 bytes more | Score: 0)
Web reading that's easier for you
nb1 writes "If you often use the print story button just to get a Web article on one page, and without the hijinks that get you to mistakenly click on advertisements, Readability may be just what you're looking for. This small bookmarklet, which you simply drag up to your bookmarks toolbar to add to your browser, will re-format the page you're on to make it easier to read. It gets rid of layout, advertising, and any of the site's original navigation. In return, the story retains its links, photos, and any embedded content, letting you read freely and without distraction.
To customize the experience you can set the default font size, and layout style, which includes a quirky "terminal" view that puts creamy white text on a dark green background. You can also set the width from super wide to a narrow column view that looks and feels like a newspaper All of this, however, must be done when first setting up the bookmarklet, so there's no option to change the text side and width from within the Readability view.
This tool reminds me quite a bit of PrintWhatYouLike, the service that lets you customize what page elements you want to print, even if the source site does not have its own print story function. It is, however noticeably faster about cutting out the page elements--it's almost instantaneous.
If you liked Readability, you'll definitely enjoy TidyRead. It does the same exact things as Readability but lets you swap things like the font size, width, and style on the fly. It works in other languages, which as of now Readability manages to flub. It also lets you send simplified article pages to friends via a special re-direct page, just like this one.
Posted by Raven on Thursday, March 12, 2009 @ 02:56:43 EDT (974 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Darkness theme reworked for RavenNuke(tm)
papamike writes "For March I reworked one of my older themes to run on RN 2.30. Darkness is a nice theme if you are into the darkside of things. Comes with matching forums.
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