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Gecko supports it, although the documentation doesn't make it clear that it's from DOM Level 3

I don't know where you got that from, but 1 search on the Mozilla developer website and I found their element.textContent documentation. Notice the linky at the bottom that takes you to the DOM 3 specs.

I know it's was the 'standard' for a long time; I started using it a decade ago and stopped a few years ago when the standards-compliant methods were supported by all major browsers. This Mozilla page has details.

Hmm, can you tell me how to implement multiple inheritance? I've wondered about that... And yes, I do want to keep instanceof working, so just copying the properties/methods over, or even calling the base constructor in the derived constructor, will not work :(

Also, Netscape (now Mozilla) does still keep evolving the language. For example, JS1.7 (Firefox 2 / Mozilla 1.8.1 branch and later). And there's work on ECMA262 ed 4. (Mostly seems to be Mozilla and Adobe folks behind it).

"Javascript is nothing related to Java".

<script> document.write(new java.lang.String("I'm here")); </script>

There _is_ a portable gVim here. And for built in vi, Firefox has the ViewSourceWith plugin, which works just great with gVim. It lets you edit any textarea using the editor of your choice. (I'm not affiliated with either of these, they're just good software.)

Even I am also new to Cross site scripting and I am learning about it. Today I discovered that I was wrong when I said third party websites cant make POST request to websites in different domain. Actually they can make POST requests through iframes but they cant read the data sent by the server due to same origin policy[1].

When a request is sent to the server either one of the following things may happen,
1. Data remains the same in the server after the server completes the request.
Ex. Get the list of all contacts. In this case data is not changed in the server side. This is just a Data request.
2. Data gets changed due to the incoming request.
Ex. Transfer $100 from Account A to B. In this case data gets changed in the server side.

My solution works only for request which are of type 1 and it will fail for requests of type 2. Gmail vulnerability discovered now belongs to type 1 request where data is not changed. Even if the third party web sites makes a POST request to Google site, they will not be able to read the data. So my solution works for Gmail vulnerability but it may not work for other type of requests where data is changed in the server side due to the client request.

[1] I simulated this case in my pc, I was able to make POST requests using to a different website iframes. But I was not able to read the data that was sent from the server to the iframe. If you want peek at these files, just drop me an email.

However, to get full-page interaction of controls that you would get using Javascript, your applet would have to present the entire page itself, rather than being embedded in a page.

MPlayer & Xine!
I'm 100% positive that MPlayer can play WMV streams. I use KMPlayer for the GUI.

Oh, and there's a video-media plugin for FireFox to help the user choose which media player to use (MediaPlayerConnectivity: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/)

>I'll just add to my previous comment that it was once widely believed that long wave radio signals propagate the longest distance, then for a while that idea was less well believed....

Terms such as "short wave" and "long wave" have largely passed into disuse, replaced by High Frequency (roughly short wave) and Medium Frequency (roughly long wave), and then for mostly point-point communications, VHF, UHF, and above.

Except for the exotic moonbounce and tropospheric ducting mentioned, all long distance radio communications on this planet uses various layers of the ionosphere, and depends on ionosphereic reflection and refraction, and is thus dependent on the state of the Sun, which has an 11-year up-down cycle. We're going to reach rock bottom in 2007, and then things will start looking up again.

If you want to see what frequency is best for reliable communications around the globe, check out this site and look at the map closest to you. These maps are compiled using ionosondes, and represent hourly experiments. They will tell you what frequency in the HF has the best chance of bouncing off the ionosphere and reach the destination. The NVIS map at the top is for transmitting straight up and having your signal come down in a ~250 mile radius. The maps below that, centered on cities around the world (San Francisco, Sydney, etc.) will show you what you need to do to get a signal to or from those cities. There's no quality info, but if you want current solar conditions, see the Propfire plugin, which will tell you.

...store it in Thunderbird's proprietary format

SM is still a marginally better browser than FF (IMO & comparing just the stock browser to just the stock browser), but it is still primarily a windows product under the mozilla family umbrella. They make builds for other arches, same as FF, but windows comes first, you can tell, and the problems follow right along. It's not just a linux browser suite so in that sense you got it incorrect..but no matter.

Right now I don't really have a favorite browser, just keep jumping around trying this or that. I am most likely going to be sticking with Konq (after qt4 gets sorted out) soon as I get more familiar with it, although all in all I prefer gnomish desktops over KDE or any more minimal DE.

I am looking forward to GPL3 to see what happens, I think that will be the real "wheat from the chaff" that FOSS needs before it is too late. And I don't care long run if that means half the people currently fooling around with open source decide to pack it in and go back to their gaming/ must have apps using pure windows again or OSX or whatever, because they aren't really FOSS people anyway. I don't even think Linus is truly a FOSS person, and, again, absolutely no proof just going on his past utterances and the feeling you can get from a public personna like that, that given enough cash he'd do anything to the kernel to lock it up and restrict it what the suits wanted (unfortunately).

I don't know what it is but I have seen it in people, once they hit a certain level of income and comfort..they change. It's different threshold person to person obviously, but I've seen it before a lot.

  I think the future of computing is too important to leave to just the suits at this time, because they always corrupt what is happening and try to reduce reality to some dollar formula. I have nothing against money per se, but money drives a lot of stupid things like MS dominance and software patents, etc, and FOSS needs a pure balance, not just one or the other interest (money or Freedom) to drive it forward.

As to the browser as it is now, what you said somewhat. It's a huge problem and I am really just wishing out loud, but I think my observations vis a vis mozilla and associated projects are accurate, and it comes down to cash. I've never seen a breakdown but I bet that the MS side of mozilla is by far the largest side in numbers of both downloads,(estimated) users and devs. It's an MS product for all practical purposes.

I'm talking about version 1.5 of the JavaScript language, a.k.a. ECMA-262 3rd edition. I don't know what browser Microsoft released in 1999 that supports it, but Internet Explorer 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 do not.

I'm talking about version 1.5 of the JavaScript language, a.k.a. ECMA-262 3rd edition. I don't know what browser Microsoft released in 1999 that supports it, but Internet Explorer 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 do not.

Try repagination (sorry, only available for Firefox, IE users will have to suggest [if you can find the link] Microsoft add this to IE 8). It doesn't help with everything, but no matter how boned up the pages are, at least you can eventually generate a single page site out of it.

basic things like calendaring, public folders, centralized rules administration

The fact of the matter is that you cant even access an exchange server with T-Bird.

It's all about the add-ons. Firefox add-ons give the browser extra functionality. I don't know if Safari has similar functionality (I am not an OS X user), but I'm pretty sure that the sheer number and diversity of add-ons for Firefox would be higher. I use lots of different plugins, from the download statusbar (I hate that download window) to the web developer plugin (great for lots of different things).

Many people find adblock and noscript very useful. Don't forget about greasemonkey, which is helpful for some of the more annoying sites. The list goes on and on. While the browser itself might not be as good as Safari, for some Mac users, the ability to customize is worth it.

A majority of libraries are slowly learning (I work at several of them) this. I always try to suggest Public Internet Web Browser as a solution because it keeps people out of the internals. Firefox with the R-kiosk add-on is a good idea too. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1659/

The main reason why...because they don't want to break compatibility with websites.
Yes yes, it's true...IE is compatible with a lot more stuff. (at a cost. ugh)
You'll also notice a majority of libraries will be using IE 6. not 7.
So if you ever do get elected your IT guys will probably at best go with Firefox 1.5 with the default renderer on IE.

Being a librarian, I've saw the Evergreen site awhile ago (before the login stopped working) and it's decent. While shelf browser is still a good idea, I prefer Innovative's or Dynix/Horizon's (never used Sirsi yet) interface on the circulation side. the good thing about Millennium is that it's platform independent and some even run on Linux machines. In Asia, they just buy Innovative as a software package instead of a turn-key solution.

Great, another web-site that requires you to enable cookies in order to get beyond the advertising. Yet not a word of warning as to all the ways enabling cookies allows anti-consumer 'services' like doubleclick to track your every move and build up all kinds of privacy invasive databases.

Ordinarily, I would just use a smart cookie manager like CookieSafe but this is suppossed to be a place I can send my non-geek friends to -- people who can't go all ubergeek and know the ins and outs of cookie abuse and cookie counter-measures.

No, they don't forbid. They DON'T IMPLEMENT such a stupid idea. Microsoft had to go out of their way to ADD this "feature".

The "feature" in question is the following JavaScript snippet:

document.execCommand('paste', false, false);
// where document is any document object having designMode="on"

Firefox throws an exception "Access to XPConnect service denied" and Opera 9 claims no support (throwing "NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR"). 'copy' and 'cut' throw similar exceptions.

So, yes, Mozilla DOES IMPLEMENT this "stupid idea". They have gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to protect your clipboard contents by disabling it by default. The IE team has done NOTHING to protect your clipboard from sniffing.

This feature has limited usefulness and it's stupid to rely on it for anything. But, if you really need it to work, you can turn it on in Firefox. I'm not at all surprised Opera 9 doesn't support it. I wouldn't.

If you try to send the email without attachments, you are warned about it and asked to confirm your action.

Added option to scan messages for "attachment keywords". If the message contains some of the user defined keywords and has no attachments, you are warned about it.

Do you know what other "security holes by design" Flash has? Or other widely used plugins, for that matter?

I first became aware of this particular one when mkaply filed bug 360950, and I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate it into Security tips for Firefox users.

Apparently the developer who was working on this feature got reassigned to help make Firefox 2.0 happen. Hopefully he or another enterprising hacker will be able to pick this up now, although it's probably too late to make TB 2.0 at this stage.

Bug 297379 has the last working patch, but PLEASE resist the urge to make any "ZOMG thundarburd NEEDS this feature or it's useless" comments.

For what it's worth, there's an open feature request for this in Bugzilla, if you would like to track its progress. But for the love of God, don't go spamming it with more "me too" messages. It already has more than enough. There's also mention of an extension that helps with this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25473 9

Ok, this is in Bugzilla now ... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36457 9

If you have any ideas, comments, etc...add 'em.

I see other similar requests marked as dupes, but maybe if enough convincing is done?

Haven't used it myself, but would this do the trick? https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/956/

Huh? It's easy, it's just a drop down to change the SMTP server. I do it all the time to test qmail setups on different servers.
There's even a few add ons you can use, like this one and this one. I guess maybe it works different than you expect, but it works well for me.

Huh? It's easy, it's just a drop down to change the SMTP server. I do it all the time to test qmail setups on different servers.
There's even a few add ons you can use, like this one and this one. I guess maybe it works different than you expect, but it works well for me.

Try using the SmtpSelect extension. I had some of the same frustration you experienced until I found it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2234/

You forgot the Linux.com/Slashdot sibling relationship disclaimer.

You also forgot the direct link to the subject.

Those two forgettings, in the same moment, make you look like a rather cheap click whore, darling. Now go brush your face.

It is reasonably easy to set up receiving from multiple email accounts. I currently have 1.5 set up to receive from five. Multiple SMTP support requires manual addition beyond the first. I find the SmtpSelect extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2234/) useful for switch between SMTP servers based on where I am sending email from.

[, year, month, dofm] = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})/.exec(sql_date)

I would consider Ruby to be the correct direction that Javascript should evolve towards.

Javascript is currently evolving towards Python, which I consider much more fit to what JS currently is and its past history.

It's also acquiring features from much more functional languages (such as JS 1.7' let structure for dynamic scope generation)

It has a bunch of other freatures I'd love to see in JS one day, like hiding instance variables

You can already get "private" variables easily, and JS has properties too, I don't see anything missing

class+module concepts

That's in the work for Javascript 2.0... maybe.

instead of having to using function() to initialize members

I sujest that you look up the notion of Prototype-based Object Oriented Programming

The initial function on which you use new is merely a constructor, the only thing that would be gotten from a more regular class syntax in that point would be... well... nothing at all.

Class-based POO has other advantages, but this is not one of them.

continuations

There are great many things that should be fixed in Javascript before implementing continuations.

Namespaces will be present in ECMAScript 4, along with lots of other goodies.

You can track the ECMAScript 4 standards proposals here: http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/

And Namespaces specifically: http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/spec/chapter_12_n amespaces.html

You can try out namespaces right now in ActionScript 3, which was modeled after earlier (incomplete) ECMA4 proposals.

Namespaces will be present in ECMAScript 4, along with lots of other goodies.

You can track the ECMAScript 4 standards proposals here: http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/

And Namespaces specifically: http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/spec/chapter_12_n amespaces.html

You can try out namespaces right now in ActionScript 3, which was modeled after earlier (incomplete) ECMA4 proposals.

I've recently started tooling around with creating some in-house Firefox extensions. They don't really do anything to extend Firefox so much as they are applications in and of themselves. As a result, I've had the opportunity to dive back into JavaScript. I must say, I've been able to get quit a number of things done rather quickly, and the results are easily distributable in a cross-platform format.

With applications such as XULRunner, distribution of JavaScript based applications could get even easier.

One of the things that's greatly lacking for non-web applications though is database connectivity. The things I've worked on so far have had to connect to a web server in order to get anything done with SQL. It still works great, but it would really be nice not to have that extra layer of complexity.

JavaScript insists for every function to have an exact number of parameters;