If you are looking for a convenient and unobtrusive audio player for your web pages, Yahoo! Media Player provides a lightweight and fast solution for your visitors to listen various audio files without leaving the current page or load Windows Media Player. (more…)
It could be hard to believe, but after the recent release of Firefox 3.5.1 update, a new security flaw that allows remote code execution through JavaScript code was discovered. A proof of concept for the exploit code was also made public and it works, because Mozilla Firefox browser is still vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The attacker could generate the buffer overflow by sending long Unicode strings to the document.write method and in this way is possible the remote code execution to compromise an operating system or a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack.
Despite of Acid 3 Test proofs for the “possible” performances of the most commonly used web browsers, like Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera 10 Beta 2 browser seems to deliver a better user experience on older computers, having a CPU working at frequency of only 1 GB. The pages rendering speed is almost instantaneous, disregarding the quantity of CSS, JavaScript or the number of server side executed functions.
As reported by the Milw0rm website, Firefox 3.5 has one big security vulnerability (entitled Firefox 3.5 Heap Spray Vulnerabilty) which exists in Tracemonkey, the new JavaScript rendering engine developed by Mozilla. The instructions for hackers regarding how to use the Firefox 3.5 security flaw can be found already online, therefore an attacker is able to take total control of any computer running Firefox 3.5 through remote code execution techniques, because a patch is not yet available. Mozilla has confirmed the existence of the Firefox browser vulnerability in the way in which JavaScript is handled by Tracemonkey engine.
As you may already know, WordPress blogging platform is built with PHP coding language and extracts data for building HTML pages from a MySQL database. The default WordPress installation does not ensure the maximum pages loading speed in case of your blog, especially when it have a high amount of content like images and JavaScript elements, as well as many activated plugins. When an user requests a web page, the number of functions executed on server side and client side implies processes which are resources consuming if certain tweaks are not performed. WP Super Cache plugin provides a good alternative to improve the overall performance of your WordPress blog by generating static HTML pages, therefore minimizing the number of database requests.
According to a recent Google study, the web based applications response speed has a great influence over the user experience and can be analysed in correlation with its current features or new elements that could be added in the future. Therefore, the need for speed is obvious in case of all client or server side software, because an optimized time for the application response to a query will result in a better user experience. In order to provide a starting place for the people who need to know the details of the factors which affects web sites performance and how to implement the best strategies and practices to get the maximum possible web applications speed, a new website intended for developers was deployed on code.google.com/speed.
Alongside the new Google Webmaster Tools graphical user interface, a new useful feature was also launched: Change of Address. It allows you to notify Google when a website is moved from one domain to another, also permitting a faster update of the Google index. As a consequence, Google will update its index to reflect the changes of a website URL. The changes will stay in effect for 180 days, while in this period of time, the pages will be indexed with their new URLs.
A widget represents a small application capable to run on your desktop. Opera Widgets are cross-platform and cross-device compatible applications that can be built only by using common Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript or CSS. Opera Widgets Software Development Kit (SDK) comes to simplify the widgets development process because it provides tools, libraries, documentation, and examples on how to make Opera Widgets for various devices.
Skyfire, the free mobile web browser with over one million current users in under five month since the first public beta launch, has already reached version 1.0 stable. It is defined as a PC-like browser for mobile devices and runs on Windows Mobile (smartphones and PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones. Skyfire delivers the same browsing experience as in case of using a personal computer, by enabling you to navigate the full-featured PC versions of your favorite websites and watch videos, buy products online, connect with friends on social networks and perform any usual task like in a regular web browser, with maximum page loading speed and content rendering quality.
SPNbabble is a new microblogging platform deployed with Laconica software. It provides services similar with Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk, but SPNbabble is intended primarily for webmasters and site owners. People are allowed to publish short messages of 140 characters over the web. The messages are transmitted directly through the web, RSS feeds or can be automatically published in the same time on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Plurk and other popular social networking services.
Starting from the idea of focusing user attention only over the playback of a movie published inside a web page, Paul Bakaus has made a media player called Uberplayer and coded with JavaScript, that does not show unnecessary elements during the video file playback. If an user runs a movie within Uberplayer, only a search interface and video information are shown at the top of the graphical interface. Uberplayer provides slide-in elements for controlling the video with the help of the mouse or keyboard.
Zemanta is a Firefox add-on which integrates naturally with the dashboard of popular blogging platforms like Blogger, WordPress, Drupal or Movable Type and provides suggestions for the currently edited content by displaying images, links, articles and tags in an easy to use and understand web browser based graphical user interface. Practically, Zemanta gives bloggers the possibility to re-publish existing web content related to their articles in order to enhance the quality of blog posts. In the same time, the authors are allowed to promote their own blogs or to share various content sources with other web writers.
By itself, Firebug is a Firefox add on which helps designers and developers to perform the live management, directly in the web browser of the HTML, CSS or JavaScript code through various editing debugging and monitoring tools. If you are developing Web 2.0 AJAX applications based on PHP, the FirePHP Firebug’s extension will provide a simple alternative to an IDE having an integrated debugger in order to debug various AJAX requests.
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