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Monday, October 26, 2009 12:05 PM

Tales of Mystery and Evaluation

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 JavaScript
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Friday, September 26, 2008 10:41 AM

On JavaScript performance in IE8

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-being
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Friday, June 02, 2006 2:47 PM

Target JavaScript: GWT, Script# and Oberon Script

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-style
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Monday, April 24, 2006 3:26 PM

JavaScript = Portable Object Code

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
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:06 PM

Google innovates

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
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:14 PM

IE Can what? Canvas Element for Internet Explorer

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
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Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:57 PM

I've switched to Linux, and it's never been so easy!

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!
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Saturday, October 01, 2005 5:25 PM

At las(t)

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
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Friday, September 30, 2005 12:24 AM

Who put the mob in mobile phones?

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
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