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Club AJAX News
Oct 5, 2010
Bob Byron

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    • PICing on JS for fun & profit Chris Leary

  • Polymorphic Inline Cacheing
  • Compare JavaScript Engines at http://www.arewefastyet.com/
  • C is Fast, JavaScript has massive features
  • Use of Virtual Machines execute instructions - slow
  • Just-in-Time (JIT) compilers speed things up.
  • Monomorphic - knowledge of single structure
  • Polymorphic - Make a chain of cache entries

    • Chrome 7 Will Get 60 Times Faster, Google Says Katherine Noyes

  • 10 security patches Google released this week for Chrome 6
  • GPU acceleration advances in the upcoming version 7 are achieving speeds 60 times faster than in version 6

    • EFF, ASF, and MS Urge Supreme Court to Revise Patent Law Audrey Watters

  • patent invalidation requires "clear and convincing"
  • patent infringement requires "preponderance of the evidence"
  • Microsoft argues both parties adhere to lower standard.

    • Bored? Click here for Asteroids! Erik Andersson

  • Steer with the arrow-keys.
  • Shoot with space.
  • To activate click the bookmark once on your webpage of choice.
  • Can't see your remaining enemies? Then press and hold B

    • evercookie -- never forget samy kamkar

  • Evil!!! Eeeeeevvvvviiiiiiilllllll!!!
  • Creates a new cookie in HTML, Flash (LSO), PNGs (HTML5 Canvas RGBencoding), HTML5 Session Storage, HTML5 Local Storage, HTML5 Global Storage, HTML5 Database
  • Other environments supported.

    • 10 Geeky Web Tricks with HTML5 and CSS3 Jason Cranford Teague

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    • Mobile Web Growth "Stunning," Says Opera's New Report Sarah Perez

  • Since August 2009, uniques has increased by 108.3%, page views by 143.2% and data traffic by 134.4%.
  • And from July to August 2010, page views went up more than 14% and data transfers went up 10%.
  • View Graphs

    • Can Android Be Stopped in the World of Smartphones? Kevin C. Tofel

    Introducing HTML5 video Mike Wilcox

  • Stuff...

    • JavaScript – It’s a Real Language! Bob Byron - Club AJAX

  • Browsers are So DOM
  • Architecture Influences Opinion
  • A Real Language is an Object Oriented Language
  • JavaScript is Loose and Flexible
  • Built-In Objects and Functions
  • But it’s Interpreted, not Compiled
  • The Server Side