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By tim, on October 18th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterCloud telephony company Twilio has announced beta support for WebRTC at its conference in San Francisco.
WebRTC is a project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera and lets you do real time communications, including access to camera and microphone, using a JavaScript API without a plug-in. There is also a W3C Working Group.
WebRTC
…continue reading Twilio adds support for WebRTC: real time communications in JavaScript
By tim, on October 1st, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft’s Anders Hejlsberg has introduced TypeScript, a programming language which is a superset of JavaScript and which compiles to JavaScript code.
The thinking behind TypeScript is that JavaScript is unsuitable for large projects.
“JavaScript was never designed to be a programming language for big applications,” says Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg, inventor of C#. “It’s a
…continue reading Here comes TypeScript: Microsoft’s superset of JavaScript
By tim, on September 17th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterDropbox is a high-profile convert to CoffeeScript, a language that has the elegance of Ruby or Python but compiles into clean JavaScript in order to run in the browser. The Dropbox team says that CoffeeScript fixes many of JavaScript’s “syntactic problems.” In addition, a porting exercise reduced 23,437 lines of JavaScript to 18,417 lines of
…continue reading Dropbox turns to CoffeeScript to beat JavaScript syntactic noise
By tim, on April 27th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterWhomever called JavaScript the assembly language of the web was a true prophet.
Compiling .Net code to JavaScript is not new. I have heard that Microsoft’s Office Web Apps, browser-hosted editing of Office documents, are built with Script#.
The difference with JSIL is that it compiles .NET Intermediate Language (IL), and therefore works with
…continue reading Convert .NET Intermediate Language to JavaScript
By tim, on March 6th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterI spoke to Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of FT.Com, shortly after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the FT web app won an award for “Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing”.
I was interested in speaking to Grimshaw for two reasons.
First, the FT is a publication which has successfully managed the transition from
…continue reading Financial Times thrives on HTML 5, paywall, and snubbing Apple iTunes
By tim, on November 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has posted an article on Evolving ECMAScript on its IE Blog. ECMAScript is the official standard for what we call JavaScript. The company is proposing some minor additions “to address gaps in Math, String and Number functionality as well as Globalization.” It has also taken the opportunity to take a shot at Google, which
…continue reading Microsoft backs ECMAScript, dismisses Google Dart
By tim, on October 10th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterGoogle has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose organisers had pre-announced that Google would be announcing its new language there, as indeed it did.
Dart is a curly-brace
…continue reading Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?
By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI have just attended a session on the future of Flash Professional, the designer-oriented authoring tool for Flash, here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.
One feature that caught my attention is that export to HTML is coming to Flash Professional. Adobe already has a research project called Project Wallaby which converts .fla files to
…continue reading Adobe Flash Professional to get HTML authoring features
By tim, on August 25th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterA press release from .appendTo, a company which offers jQuery-based services and training, states that “jQuery Overtakes Flash on World’s Top Websites”. I found it a curious claim insofar as jQuery is not really an alternative to Flash, though there is some limited set of graphical effects for which I guess you could use either.
…continue reading jQuery usage soars as Adobe Flash shows slight decline
By tim, on June 24th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft will port node.js to Windows in partnership with Joyent. This will work on Windows Azure as well as other versions of Windows back to Server 2003.
But can you not already run node.js on Windows? This is possible using Cygwin and instructions are here. Cygwin makes Windows more like Linux by providing familiar Linux
…continue reading Microsoft partners with Joyent to bring node.js server-side JavaScript to Windows
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