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JavaScript's founder claims JavaScript has displaced Java as a Web client, outlines projected enhancements

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IBM tool eases JavaScript development

Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.

| News | Development | 09/08/09 at 8:42 pm |


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Firefox 3.5 features new Javascript engine, built-in video

Firefox 3.5, which is due out in final release at the end of the month, will allow people to edit digital images from within the browser without need for a third-party application, thanks to a new Javascript engine Mozilla has built for the browser.

| News | Internet | 06/10/09 at 7:32 pm |


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JavaScript - the Web site performance killer, Google guru says

Nowadays, even regular Web surfers know some of the things to avoid when designing a Web site for fast performance. Cut the number of requests to the Web server. Shrink JPEG sizes. Employ a content delivery network vendor like Akamai Technologies Inc. or Limelight Networks Inc. Problem is, according to Steve Souders, steps like these aimed at optimizing the Web server make only a tiny impact.

| News | Development | 05/13/09 at 1:17 pm |


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Microsoft tool measures JavaScript performance

Boosting visibility into Web client interactions, Microsoft released this week Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions, a "power tool" for measuring performance of portions of Web applications executing JavaScript inside a browser.

| News | Development | 04/30/09 at 3:30 pm |


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