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Ajax go through in Dutch Cup
SkySports Ajax advanced to the fourth round of the Dutch Cup with a 2-1 victory over FC Dordrecht after extra time. Dordrecht, who play their football in the second … KNVB Beker Thursday Round-Up: Emanuelson Spares Ajax Blushes EMANUELSON SPARES AJAX BLUSHES Emanuelson at the double for Ajax |
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Colgate-Palmolive 3Q profit rises 18 percent
The Associated Press The maker of toothpaste, dish soap and Ajax cleanser said Thursday that it earned $590 million, or $1.12 per share, in the quarter that ended in September. … REG-Colgate-Palmolive Co Colgate Announces Record 3rd Quarter Earnings … Colgate Profit Up, Even as It Hikes Prices Colgate-Palmolive profit up 18% |
Caja is one of the most promising attempts to deliver secure web applications not prone to the attacks that normal JavaScript solutions sadly enough allow for. Let’s face it – the concept of global variables and the lack of sandboxed environments in addition to the fun that is browser security holes makes the web as it stands now quite hard to secure.
The problem with Caja is that it is quite troublesome to get your head around. Caja pre-processes web content (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and converts it to something really unreadable but very secure. Practices that are insecure but have become quite common use rightfully are being flagged up as errors and fail to compile. This reminds me of Netscape 4.x rightfully not rendering tables that weren’t closed or Netscape 6 not supporting document.all any more – the response from developers was outrage as we are happy to write “convenient” code.
The way around a lot of browser bugs and implementation funnies (see John Resig’s talk the DOM is a mess for a deep-dive on that) is libraries. All the different JavaScript libraries – Dojo, MooTools, jQuery, YUI… first and foremost want to make our lives easier by making browsers behave. That’s cool and all, but the problem is that the libraries themselves are not Caja compliant.
As Yahoo’s new application platform YAP that allows you to run small apps in My Yahoo and the Yahoo homepage uses Caja there was an immediate need to make YUI work. The YUI team and the YAP engineers put their heads down and now announced that YUI has been cleaned up and made compatible.
As Caja doesn’t allow for script with a src inside a container this restriction has been lifted for the official YUI locations. Read more details about the changes to YUI on the YDN blog and here are the links to the docs and the forum where I’d encourage you to report any bugs you find:
This is a great step towards secure apps that can be built easily. There were a few earlier attempts to “fix” prototype to become Caja compliant and I would love that to come to fruition. Furthermore, a Caja compliant jQuery and Mootools would rock, too. The official whitelisted endpoint for inclusion could be the Google Ajax Libraries API.
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Colgate-Palmolive 3Q profit rises 18 percent
The Associated Press The maker of toothpaste, dish soap and Ajax cleanser said Thursday that it earned $590 million, or $1.12 per share, in the quarter that ended in September. … REG-Colgate-Palmolive Co Colgate Announces Record 3rd Quarter Earnings … Colgate Profit Up, Even as It Hikes Prices Colgate-Palmolive profit up 18% |
Thomas Fuchs has been working with Nokia on their multi-touch API for Qt/WebKit:
scripty2 supports multiple API vendors for Multitouch events, and even provides a desktop emulation (click+drag to pan, shift+click+drag to scale and rotate)– so you can try this out even without having multitouch hardware at your disposal.
Currently the scripty2 API abstraction event supports Desktop emulation, Nokia Starlight and Apple iPhone Mobile Safari. With just one API, you can now multi-touch enable any web application easily, just check out the demos.
In a recent update to scripty2, I’ve also introduced automatic support for WebKit CSS transitions, so whenever scripty2 effects are used and CSS transitions are available, the effects engine will automatically do the right thing for you.
All in all, using this in your web sites or apps boils down to just a couple of lines of code:
JAVASCRIPT:
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Colgate-Palmolive 3Q profit rises 18 percent
The Associated Press The maker of toothpaste, dish soap and Ajax cleanser said Thursday that it earned $590 million, or $1.12 per share, in the quarter that ended in September. … Colgate 3Q Profit Rises 18% Amid Higher Prices, Prior-Year Charges Colgate-Palmolive profit rises Colgate quarterly profit tops expectations |
Jeremy Ashkenas and the DocumentCloud team have just released Underscore.js a small library that provides all the functional programming helpers that you expect from Prototype.js or Ruby, but without extending any core JavaScript objects.
Jeremy told us:
This makes it a natural fit alongside jQuery, without having to worry about the conflicts and redundant functionality that using Prototype and jQuery together would entail. For browsers that support the new Javascript 1.6 array functions, it delegates to the native implementations, so your “_.map()” can run at full speed, where available. It’s a tiny download, 4k when gzipped. Here’s the project page, with full documentation, live tests and benchmarks.
Some of the utilities:
Collections
each, map,
reduce, detect, select, reject, all,
any, include, invoke, pluck, max,
min, sortBy, sortedIndex, toArray,
size
Arrays
first, last,
compact, flatten, without, uniq,
intersect, zip, indexOf,
lastIndexOf
Functions
bind, bindAll, delay,
defer, wrap, compose
Objects
keys, values,
extend, clone, isEqual, isElement,
isArray, isFunction, isUndefined
Utility
noConflict,
uniqueId, template
There has already been nice community patches and suggestions from the community, and Kris Kowal helped make it CommonJS-compliant.
Obviously, other libraries have covered a lot of these before, but it is nice to see a small core covering.
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Earnings Preview: Colgate-Palmolive to report 3Q
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