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May 20, 2006
Javascript Extensions for IE
Or more correctly, Maxthon (an IE shell). They have the concept of JavaScript-based plugins that can live in a sidebar or on the toolbar, and have quite a few of them available.
Definitely not as powerfull as the Mozilla extension system we've had for years, but shows that it is possible to extend IE with JavaScript. I wonder why Microsoft hasn't introduce a similar device for IE7, but I guess that could undermine their .NET/ strategy.
Posted by doron at 12:50 PM | Comments (3)
May 14, 2006
Javascript 2 Presentation at The Ajax Experience
Ajaxian posted Brendan's presentation at The Ahax Experience, called "JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web". Covers all the goodies JS2 will give us.
One thing I noticed is the following point about class:
- By default a class is sealed against mutation
The dynamic nature of the current way of doing class-like things using .prototype opens some security holes (at least people claim it) since you can overwrite any method. So looks like JS2 will close that potential web application hole, which is neat.
Posted by doron at 5:54 AM | Comments (9)
May 12, 2006
Real Rhapsody and Linux Firefox 1.5 now work
Looks like Real has released a new version of their web-based rhapsody plugin that works with Firefox 1.5 on linux (tested on FC4). Be sure to remove the old plugin (called nprhapengine.so, usually found in ~/.mozilla/plugins) and then go to rhapsody.com and login - it will install the new version. The old version crashes :)
Posted by doron at 11:26 AM | Comments (1)