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libuv Status Report
Ryan Dahl posted a status report for libuv to the Node blog, and described some of the background to libuv and reviewed the features implemented so far. This includes non-blocking TCP sockets (using IOCP in Windows), non-blocking named pipes, UDP , timers, child process spawning, asynchronous DNS , asynchronous file APIs…
- use Firefox on Windows
- use Firefox at the same time as other programs that use lots of memory.
Background
Mozilla engineers started an effort called MemShrink , the aim of which is to improve Firefox's speed and stability by reducing its memory usage. A great deal of progress has been made, and thanks to Firefox's faster development cycle , each improvement made will make its way into a final release in only 12-18 weeks. The newest update …
The Windows 8 Web Platform
Before we go into the details of HTML5 support in Win8/IE10, it's probably worth stepping back and covering some essentials of Windows 8. Windows 8 represents a big shift in Microsoft strategy because it makes web technologies a Tier 1 development option for native Windows apps.
To repeat: applications developed in JavaScript/ HTML/ CSS can now be built and distributed as native Windows applications .
The core Windows services for …
…able to package for both iOS and Android from both Mac and Windows.
HTML5 Device API s aren't fully available on mobile browsers yet, so we're adding many of the native device API s into the packager API surface, letting you take advantage of what future web browsers will enable today.
Layouts are getting much faster. We're replumbed the internals of the layout system so component layouts are radically faster. You'll notice right away on a Touch 2 …
…843 - which doesn't work through proxies, no need to host ‘crossdomain.xml', no need to wait for 3 seconds in order to detect problems)
French Node Blog
Vincent Rabah emailed us to share his French Node blog: IT Wars: Node articles . He's got articles covering Socket.IO, Twitter, Vim, Windows, and a variety of other topics including log monitoring.
…Microsoft grief, since ECMA had bravely standardized some part of the Windows API. But Jan and the entire TC39 TG1 group played fair on ES1, the first ECMA-262 Edition. Microsoft was so happy they standardized early C# and CLI metadata specs at Ecma.
Not Bruce Campbell, so not me. That means I'm the Bad.
Here is something that the Google leak about Dart ( née Dash) telegraphs: many Googlers, especially V8 principals, do not like …
Porting Node to Windows With Microsoft's Help
Creating chat roulette with node.js, socket.io, and OpenTok
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…hardware accelerated environments. In Aurora 7, it is already able to interact with Windows 7′s Direct2D API to render the content of a <canvas> element (in a 2D context). You can read a detailed explanation of the Azure project and its next steps on Joe Drew's blog.
Other Improvements
HTML
The HTMLHeadElement profile property has been removed, this property has been deprecated since Gecko 2.0. (see bug 664544 )
The HTMLImageElement …
…Microsoft. Clearly, in 1995, the " Netscape + Java kills Windows" talk from Netscape antagonized Microsoft. I have it on good authority that a Microsoft board member wrote marca at the end of 1995 warning "you've waved the cape in the bull's face — prepare to get the horns!" One could argue that Chrome in 2008 was the new red cape in the bull's face, which begot IE9 and Chakra.
Whatever Google's reasoning, keeping V8 closed-source for …
…from what the beginner will be doing: tracking dead cats, creating a terrarium simulation, parsing a Windows INI file, etc. I prefer to teach people with examples that are at least in the vicinity of what they'll actually be doing. The first real mention of web programming doesn't even enter the conversation until Chapter 9.
To be fair, chapters 9-12 do a good job of discussing web programming and introducing some of the topics the reader would need to make use of their new-found …
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