Thursday, March 20, 2008

iPhone 2.0: Safari hosts local apps; SQL on a smartphone!; go get Safari 3.1 now. I have a secret: I love JavaScript. It has an extremely simple C-like grammar--it has far more in common with C than Java--and is readable and compact. I can teach it to a child in an hour. With just a few days of messing around, a beginner can write powerful client and server applications in JavaScript, and the minimum required toolset is a browser and a text editor. To test changes to your code, you refresh its browser page. I developed my appreciation for JavaScript by using it to create applications of surprising scale. In 1999, I wrote a... READ MORE [Enterprise Mac | Tom Yager] comment []9:45:49 AM

First Look: Safari 3.1 adds speed and HTML 5 features. Apple released Safari 3.1 on March 18 with an updated rendering engine that makes the fastest Internet browser even faster. [Computerworld Breaking News] comment []1:38:24 AM

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