I once believed that Javascript was a toy language that was not worth the time. And once upon a time that was true. But times have changed. Today, Javascript is a suprisingly useful language.
My area of expertise is telework, or remotely hosted applications. I've been writing PHP/SQL databases for years, and the end result always feels like a web page, not a program. In order to make an web based application "feel" like an application, Javascript is the thing.
Take, for instance, Game Lib, a javascript library for writing games. These games are far more "cross-platform" than anything else out there. Or Javascript Windows, which simulates multiple browser windows in a single web page - even allowing form submission with reloading the document. And how about that DHTML debugger written in Javascript ? You can't do those things in PHP.
I find that the Javascript/PHP/SQL can be used to create cross-platform, remotely hosted applications. And until we, as the development community, start taking advantage of Javascript, it will continue to be buggy in all the browsers. Once we make it a standard part of the process, then the web browsers will make more of an effort to support it.
Looks like the tenth one just came at 2:40pm EST according to this article on space.com.
Initial reports are of an X11, but it could be an X20, but fortunately it's not aimed straight at us.
"This one saturated the X-ray detectors on the NOAA's GOES satellites that monitor the Sun," Brekke said. "The jury is therefore out on the definitive classification of the flare."
I haven't heard anyone mention it, but the trojan.qHost "virus" (not a virus at all) is pretty nasty, and seems to be changing all the time. It only effects IE right now.
It changed your DNS settings, and creates a hijacking "hosts" file so that all search engines (google, yahoo, hotbot, excite) end up at another webserver. It took me about a week to figure out what was going on, and from the look of things other people are stuck on it.
It's being called a virus, but really it's hijack-ware. And once you've caught it, it's really hard to do a search to find out what's going on.
There's a small discussion on GoogleGuys site (seems to be shrinking ?), and a trojan.qHost information/removal page at BiteSize.
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I once believed that Javascript was a toy language that was not worth the time. And once upon a time that was true. But times have changed. Today, Javascript is a suprisingly useful language.
My area of expertise is telework, or remotely hosted applications. I've been writing PHP/SQL databases for years, and the end result always feels like a web page, not a program. In order to make an web based application "feel" like an application, Javascript is the thing.
Take, for instance, Game Lib, a javascript library for writing games. These games are far more "cross-platform" than anything else out there. Or Javascript Windows, which simulates multiple browser windows in a single web page - even allowing form submission with reloading the document. And how about that DHTML debugger written in Javascript ? You can't do those things in PHP.
I find that the Javascript/PHP/SQL can be used to create cross-platform, remotely hosted applications. And until we, as the development community, start taking advantage of Javascript, it will continue to be buggy in all the browsers. Once we make it a standard part of the process, then the web browsers will make more of an effort to support it.
I haven't heard anyone mention it, but the trojan.qHost "virus" (not a virus at all) is pretty nasty, and seems to be changing all the time. It only effects IE right now. It changed your DNS settings, and creates a hijacking "hosts" file so that all search engines (google, yahoo, hotbot, excite) end up at another webserver. It took me about a week to figure out what was going on, and from the look of things other people are stuck on it. It's being called a virus, but really it's hijack-ware. And once you've caught it, it's really hard to do a search to find out what's going on. There's a small discussion on GoogleGuys site (seems to be shrinking ?), and a trojan.qHost information/removal page at BiteSize.