Mozilla has released the first alpha of Firefox 3.6. Ars takes a look at the new features, such as CSS gradients.

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A critical flaw in the way Firefox 3.5 handles Javascript opens the door to a serious attack, according to Secunia, which tracks security vulnerabilities.

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A tiny new Javascript library, "RightJS" from Nikolay Nemshilov, is 2-5 times faster than all the popular alternatives.

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The company announced Thursday that an update to Chrome's V8 Javascript engine, combined with a new version of the Webkit browser engine, should improve the loading speed of Javascript-heavy Web pages by up to 30 percent.

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It all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. More Articles

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Very cool demos of Chrome's amazing high-speed javascript engine

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During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment.

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it is time for — Best of CSS Design 2008 (a new list of 50 websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery). This year, more designers are using the large background technique and utilizing Javascript frameworks (such as jQuery and MooTools) to enchance the user experience.

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If the People Had a "Say So" in the Congressional Voting

Was it just Monday or was it Tuesday night this week that the House of Representatives voted down the Bail Out Bill? It's not that I'm absent minded, it's that when I like other Americans must work to make sure our country does not make mistakes that will take many years to corre …

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Developers and designers are using more and more JavaScript in modern designs. Sometimes this can be a hindrance to the user and take away from the simplicity of the design, and other times it can add greatly to the user's experience.

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Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from everyday life, such as hand-drawn elements, script fonts, pins, paper clips, organic textures and scrapbooks.

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"Happy Easter For you non-programmers, there's an Easter egg, too: type "about:internets" into the Omnibox.

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One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark.

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Google introduced Chrome in part because it wants faster browsing and the richer Web applications that speed will unlock. So how does Chrome actually stack up?

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"Lars Bak, the Google engineer who was the technical leader for Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, said at the launch event Tuesday he's confident Chrome is "many times faster" than the rivals at running JavaScript, the programming language that powers Google Docs, Gmail, and many ot …

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Google's new web browser, Google Chrome, is now available for download. Will it dethrone Firefox? Will it further crush the hopes and dreams of Internet Explorer? Hit the link to find out. Note: Mac users still out on the cold on this one, same goes for Linux.

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Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft.

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Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine.

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It's not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up winning — and evolve in order to become more solid and established.

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DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis' brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu 'p01' Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller's experiment with generated favicons VU meter.

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The SproutCore JavaScript framework was developed outside of Apple by Charles Jolley, originally to create an online email manager called Mailroom.

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Ajax has becoming very popular recently, but most designers seem to rehash the same script over and over (you'll see it in a lot of Wordpress Themes and Plugins). Perhaps we aren't using ajax technology to its full potential, myself included.

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One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled "Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore."

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Another fine RoughlyDrafted article bringing considerable insight into Apple's (and Google's) open standards-based strategic plans. Excerpt:

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An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage of the 18,000 broadband customers under surveillance believed they'd been infected with  …

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