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Google Chrome developer preview (unofficially) released

by Robert Palmer (Jun 5th, 2009)

Digg's Kevin Rose, perennial purveyor of information that just "fell off the back of the truck" shared a link early this morning to Google's new, supercharged, Webkit-based browser -- for Mac. The new browser, Chrome, is clearly marked as a developer preview, and not meant for general browsing. In ...

NimbleKit: Native iPhone apps with HTML and JavaScript

by Brett Terpstra (May 27th, 2009)

If you're packing a little JavaScript-fu but not much Objective-C knowledge, and itching to jump on the App Store bandwagon, NimbleKit may be the answer you're looking for. By providing its own API on top of Cocoa Touch, NimbleKit allows would-be developers to access core iPhone functionality with ...

iPhone OS 3.0 brings the speed for JavaScript

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 27th, 2009)

Ars is reporting the 3.0 speed improvements to Mobile Safari's JavaScript engine range from 3x to 16x -- a blessed boon to web developers everywhere. No one seems to know if Mobile Safari will be sporting Nitro or SquirrelFish or what, but whatever it is, it'll be faster. If you check out the ...

Acrobat vulnerability may affect Mac users

by Michael Rose (Feb 20th, 2009)

As if the baked-in security issues weren't enough to deal with, Adobe has announced today that all versions since v7 of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader on all platforms -- including Mac OS X -- are vulnerable to an Javascript exploit that can crash Acrobat. [Correction, per The Register and ...

Opera: Apple won't let us in the App Store

by Robert Palmer (Oct 31st, 2008)

Opera Software CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner said in a New York Times interview yesterday that its engineers have developed a version of the Opera web browser that works on the iPhone, but Apple has rejected it for the App Store because it competes with Safari. This isn't unprecedented: Apple ...

Screaming fast Mozilla browser Minefield gives a glimpse of Firefox's future

by Jason Clarke (Oct 26th, 2008)

I was really disappointed when Google released their Chrome web browser for Windows only. When it comes to browsers, I've tried them all. Right now I regularly switch between Firefox and the latest nightly build from Webkit (essentially Safari). Firefox has the extensibility I rely on, while Webkit ...

JSCocoa 1.0, write Cocoa apps in Javascript

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 9th, 2008)

Do you want to write Cocoa applications, but happen to be handier with Javascript than with Objective-C? JSCocoa to the rescue! Similar in concept to RubyCocoa, JSCocoa provides a bridge between Webkit's JavascriptCore and Cocoa, allowing you to call C and Objective-C code, as well as build ...

Google creating its own browser based on WebKit

by Robert Palmer (Sep 1st, 2008)

Google is developing a new web browser built from the ground up and based on WebKit, the same rendering engine that Safari uses. The browser, called Chrome, is open-source software built with security, compatibility and speed in mind. Each tab in the browser will be its own separate running ...

Take back your iWeb galleries in Firefox 3

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 2008)

Just as Firefox users were upgrading to version 3 last week, many people started to miss their iWeb-created galleries as they just disappeared. Well, one iWeb user has been doing extra work to fix Apple's? (erm... Mozilla's?) problem. Joshua Ochs has posted an in-depth article on his site ...

New .Mac galleries leverage open source frameworks

by Scott McNulty (Aug 7th, 2007)

The .Mac galleries got a lot of time today in Steve's presentation, and for good reason. Though I won't be dropping Flickr any time soon, the .Mac galleries are very cool looking and have some very nice features (the 'photo skimming' is a nice touch). It would seem that Apple leveraged some Open ...

iPhone bookmarklets

by Mat Lu (Jul 19th, 2007)

Over at LifeClever they had the in retrospect obvious, but nonetheless brilliant idea that you can use javascript bookmarkets with your iPhone. Bookmarklets are basically little bits of JavaScript that can perform various functions in your web browser. So, for instance, del.icio.us offers ...

Experimental web app could bring AIM chat to iPhone

by David Chartier (Jun 24th, 2007)

While the jury will of course be out until June 29th as to whether web-based chat apps like Meebo could be used on the iPhone to work around the lack of a true, built-in chat app, David Cann has developed an experimental web interface that might bring AIM to next week's highly-anticipated gadget. ...

The line between web and "real" apps on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2007)

Rogue Amoeba apparently wanted to jump in today and be the first devs to thank His Steveness for presenting developers with a complete and terrific iPhone SDK this afternoon. Or-- in their sarcastic case-- the lack thereof. Yes, as you can see in the resulting comments, Mac developers aren't real ...

Drosera - A JavaScript Debugger for WebKit

by Damien Barrett (Jun 28th, 2006)

The WebKit group released a new tool called Drosera last night. It's a JavaScript debugger that will work alongside any WebKit application, including Safari. This is welcome news for the web design community -- any tool that can help JavaScript to work more fluidly in Safari is a good thing. ...

Creammonkey is great - but where are the scripts?

by David Chartier (Mar 28th, 2006)

I found a Safari plugin by the name of Creammonkey, which is more or less an attempt at bringing Greasemonkey's abilities to Safari's side of the fence. For those unfamiliar with Greasemonkey: it's a Firefox extension that allows savvy javascript ninjas to add functionality to websites and services, ...