Updated below For reasons that I don't want to talk about right now I've read the JavaScript specification (ECMA-262, 3rd edition) when I stumbled upon a small mystery. It'd be more of a challenge than a mystery if the major Web browsers and their...

Although I'm not technically a Microsoft employee anymore (I left Microsoft Research, Cambridge, at the end of 2006), I still consider myself friendly with Microsoft and have, for various reasons (including stock), a certain residual interest in the well...

The paper on Oberon Script that I submitted to the Joint Modular Languages Conference ( JMLC 2006 ), and that I wrote about in my last post was accepted. Thank you! In the mean time, two toolkits were announced to the public that allow developing AJAX...

A few days ago I submitted a short paper to a small conference on modular programming languages and systems describing a small experiment that I did in my series of "Cool Things You Can Do With JavaScript". I was just about leaving my office before heading...

Google have just released ExplorerCanvas , an innovative way of bringing the canvas tag familiar from Firefox, Safari and Opera 9 to Internet Explorer that doesn't natively support it. Apparently, all you have to do is add a script tag into Web pages...

I've just finished a simple implementation of a canvas element for Microsoft Internet Explorer using VML . I needed a way to do simple line graphics for a project I'm working on, and that I want to run in both IE and Firefox. While I could have used either...

I've had enough! This weekend, I've finally made the switch, and I'm now one of the many thousands of satisfied Linux users. I know I shouldn't say this so frankly -- and I won't apologize for this -- but the other crap can stay on the shelves for good...

I haven't checked out all the details of the new Atlas Web Client Framework yet, therefore I don't know whether I like it or not. What I certainly like is that -- finally -- there has been some progress in the field of interactive Web services since I...

Last time I was in Switzerland I bought one of the stylish new M-Budget Mobile phones by Migros , the biggest retailer in Switzerland. Not that I particularly needed another one, but when I heard that the two biggest retailers (Migros and Coop ) were...