JavaScript

Adobe Edge May Become Beginning of the End for Flash

Adobe’s Edge is a new animation tool that outputs pure HTML5. It has great potential and it will take over Flash for simple to medium projects. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if this kills Flash forever in the long run. It’s available now for free, for both Macs and Windows, and “enables users to add…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 1

iOS 5 Homescreen Web Apps Will Get a Boost from Mobile Safari’s Nitro Engine

iOS allows web apps to look and behave like normal apps if bookmarked on the homescreen. And now with iOS 5, those web apps will be allowed to use Mobile Safari’s Nitro JavaScript engine, promising faster, more powerful performance. [Ars Technica]

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 17

Early iPad 2 Benchmarks Suggest Web Performance Isn’t Much Improved

Ars Technica pounced on some early iPad 2 benchmarks by CNET UK (link currently down), suggesting that the iPad 2’s improved processor doesn’t give it that much of an edge over the original tablet for web-based tasks. CNET ran the SunSpider JavaScript test on both an iPad 2 and an original iPad running last week’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 7

This Is the Best Time Waster You Will Come Across Today

I’ve spent the last hour destroying web pages using this Asteroids bookmarklet: Facebook, Twitter, Scoreland (NSFW), Justin Bieber’s site… Everything can be destroyed exactly like in the Asteroids game. Watch this reader lasering Gizmodo down to smithereens. Created by Erik Andersson, the javascript bookmarklet will work with any page, identifying objects and using the spaceships…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 29

A 17-Year Old Caused Yesterday’s Twitter Mess

An 17-year old Australian is taking responsibility for unwittingly causing yesterday’s Twitter bug. While the teen didn’t directly bring the flood of spam and porn retweets, he burst open the dam. I guess that passes for precociousness these days? https://gizmodo.com/there-was-a-new-twitter-exploit-and-it-was-spreading-li-5643732 The trouble began when the Melbourne-based high school student decide to test the security flaw…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett Sep 22

There Was a New Twitter Exploit and It Was Spreading Like Wildfire

Twitter is seriously screwed up at the moment, thanks to a new Javascript exploit that’s currently slamming the service. Visitors of Twitter’s website are inadvertently retweeting spam and porn to their followers, just by hovering over tweets. UPDATE: Patched Update: As of 9:50, Twitter says “The exploit is fully patched.” The exploit takes advantage of…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert Sep 21

Firefox 4 Beta 3 Update Available Now For Multi-Touch Windows 7 Users

It’s a small update, but a good ‘un—well, for anyone using Windows 7 with a multi-touch monitor. A few other minor upgrades have also been included, such as new JavaScript values for faster graphics. Get the download now. [Firefox]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 12

Android 2.2 Dusts iOS4 In JavaScript Performance

Testing stock browsers found within Android 2.2 (Nexus One) and iOS4 (iPhone 4), ars technica discovered that there’s no comparison in JavaScript performance. But DoodleJump plays a bit smoother on my iPhone, which is 99% of what really matters. [arstechnica] https://gizmodo.com/what-is-froyo-5543853

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7

iPad Benchmarks

Our test notes on the iPad’s speed have been updated with some benchmarks comparing the iPad and the iPhone. The numbers confirm what we saw in our field tests: on average, the iPad runs about twice as fast as the 3GS. For the full numbers, check out our test notes.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Apr 4

Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it’s a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realize that every one of them actually works. It’s been a looooong time since I’ve done anything resembling serious web design, so my initial reaction was…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 18

Google Chromium on Mac Kicks Every Other Mac Browser’s Ass

Google Chromium 4.0, the pre-alpha version of Chrome, may still be buggy and crashy as all hell, but it’s also incredibly fast, according to benchmarks: 34% faster than Safari, for one, and more than twice as fast as Firefox. These numbers are based on Javascript benchmarks, which don’t give a total view of a browser’s…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 13

Opera 9.5 Mobile Browser About to Get Commercial Release

The latest Opera Mobile Browser, version 9.5, has just been previewed in time for GSMA 2008. The new version tries to be more like a desktop browser and adds a full text history search, allowing you to find pages you forgot to bookmark previously. Flash gets a look in too, since Flash Lite 3.0 support…

Tech News Kit Eaton Feb 5

Adobe Edge May Become Beginning of the End for Flash

iOS 5 Homescreen Web Apps Will Get a Boost from Mobile Safari’s Nitro Engine

Early iPad 2 Benchmarks Suggest Web Performance Isn’t Much Improved

This Is the Best Time Waster You Will Come Across Today

A 17-Year Old Caused Yesterday’s Twitter Mess

There Was a New Twitter Exploit and It Was Spreading Like Wildfire

Firefox 4 Beta 3 Update Available Now For Multi-Touch Windows 7 Users

Android 2.2 Dusts iOS4 In JavaScript Performance

iPad Benchmarks

Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

Google Chromium on Mac Kicks Every Other Mac Browser’s Ass

Opera 9.5 Mobile Browser About to Get Commercial Release

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