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Real-time comment and reaction platform Echo has just released a new feature for its Echo Pro customers: A real-time recent comments widget . The widget, which can be integrated into practically any website with a few lines of Javascript code, pulls in comments and reactions to posts from across the web.
Security firm Sophos has urged Adobe to disable Javascript by default in its PDF products, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Sophos believes that Adobe needs to ‘overhaul its approach to building security in its products’ and could start by ensuring that users decide if Javascript is enabled. “The common thread in most, if not all, Adobe exploits is the requirement for JavaScript – as exploits will work correctly only if JavaScript is enabled,” said Vanja Svajcer principal virus researcher at Sophos
Apple released the latest major version of its Web browser, Safari 5, earlier this week . Along with several new features—one of them somewhat controversial —the update was said to pack a number of performance improvements, including DNS pre-fetching and optimizations to Safari’s Nitro JavaScript engine.
Opera has just announced the release of the latest alpha version of its browser with an enhanced javascript engine and loads of UI improvements. The latest version follows the existing version (10.50) of the browser which has been hailed as the fastest browser on the planet. As expected, the latest alpha version is touted to be even faster than version 10.5 – thanks to the improvements made in the javascript engine
The game channel of a popular Chinese information and entertainment Web site, Mop.com, has been compromised, leaving the accounts of online gamers vulnerable to theft, security vendor Websense has warned. In a blog post Monday, Websense said cybercriminals had injected the game site with malicious code by modifying a Javascript file referenced by the site.
Right now at Google I/O engineering VP Vic Gundotra is going over all the new features of Android’s newest release, dubbed Froyo . It is chock full of updates, including WiFi tethering ( told ya ), Microsoft Exchange support, APIs for enterprise device management, faster Javascript performance, auto-updating apps, and a new way to send data from a computer to an Android phone. The Send-To-Android feature is particularly elegant
You heard it here first, folks. Google has just come out with the strident claim that the web browser that comes as part of Android 2.2 , aka Froyo, is the world’s fastest for mobile devices.
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has found a security hole in Safari, where a hacker could run arbitrary code at the privilege level of the current user account, if the victim visits a malicious web page. Outlined yesterday on the CERT website, this problem happens because Safari currently fails to properly handle references to window objects in the HTML DOM, and allows DOM window references to exist even if the corresponding window object has been deleted
Google has just released a video demonstrating the speed of the new beta of its Chrome web browser . As we noted yesterday, Chrome continues to gain marketshare among tech savvy users. Speed has always been one of Chrome’s hallmark features and the latest beta really takes it to another level.
Has the Nokia N8 made a Symbian^3 believer out of you? If so, you’ll be glad to know the beta tag has been peeled off the web application development tools for the platform, which — according to Executive Director Lee Williams — provide “an ideal entry point” for coders of all skill levels