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JavaScript

The Lunduke Journal on X: "Mozilla has just deleted the following: “Does Firefox sell your personal data?” “Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " https://t.co/OVAJnuHp7x https://t.co/IYMS4zGxiy" / X

Standard browser compatibility notice informing users about JavaScript being disabled and providing guidance for enabling it or switching browsers.

Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated

A detailed exploration of bookmarklets and custom URL schemes reveals their underutilized potential for enhancing browser functionality through JavaScript-enabled bookmarks and custom protocol handlers. The functionality allows users to create custom buttons that can interact with both web content and local applications, enabling powerful browser-to-application workflows. The technology demonstrates the possibility of more extensible and powerful GUIs, though implementation currently requires some technical expertise.

Beej's Bit Bucket

A developer documents their journey of replacing Disqus with Mastodon-powered comments on their blog, detailing the technical implementation process and considerations. The solution involves fetching comments via Mastodon's API and displaying them using JavaScript, while maintaining a blacklist system for content moderation.

The First Wasm_of_ocaml Release is Out!

Wasm_of_ocaml, a fork of Js_of_ocaml compiler that translates OCaml bytecode to WebAssembly, has released its first feature-complete version 6.0.1. The compiler offers better performance than Js_of_ocaml while maintaining compatibility, showing 2x-8x improvements in benchmarks and leveraging WasmGC for enhanced JavaScript interoperability.

Rust is Eating JavaScript | Lee Robinson

Mozilla-created Rust programming language is increasingly being adopted to optimize JavaScript tooling, offering significant performance improvements in areas like minification, transpilation, and bundling. Major tech companies and open-source projects are leveraging Rust's memory efficiency and speed to enhance developer tools, with projects like SWC showing 3-5x performance gains.

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored

Oracle filed a motion to dismiss Deno's petition to cancel its JavaScript trademark, focusing solely on defending its use of Node.js as proof of trademark rather than addressing JavaScript's status as an open standard. The company claims its Oracle JET screenshot was sufficient evidence for trademark renewal, while avoiding discussion of whether JavaScript is a generic term.