We had so many milestone releases today!
Flash player 9 for linux is probably the most exciting news.
Second, Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 7. (even if I dont like at all the new look).
Last but not least Firefox 2 is on the way!
Today the Firefox 2 Release Candidate 3 have been released (with Javascript 1.7 support and with Google suggest integrated).
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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the first beta release of the next major Firefox, which will be widely promoted to end-users, is scheduled for later this year.
New features include an improved software update system, faster Back and Forward navigation (I’m testing it and it’s really fast!), a feature for clearing private browsing data, drag-and-drop reordering of browser tabs, a redesigned Options/Preferences window and better popup blocking. Web standards support is also improved:
- Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- JavaScript 1.6 and more CSS
- Accessibility is also better (including new DHTML accessibility features)
- Security has been enhanced and there’s now greater support for Mac OSX
Please note that installing FireFox over previous version will disable almost all downloaded extensions which are not compatible with this version of Firefox.
Beta 2 is scheduled for release on Wednesday 5th October and the first release candidate is due on Friday 28th October.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Flash/Javascript Integration Kit
As just read on the Mike Chambers blog, here the link to the beta release of the Flash/Javascript Integration Kit (How can i miss it?!?)
It works on these browsers/OS:
* Windows IE 6.0
* Windows Firefox 1.0
* Windows Opera 8.0
* Macintosh Opera 8.0
* Macintosh Firefox 1.0
* Safari 1.2.4 and 2.0
* Linux Firefox 1.0.4
and it can be possible to communicate passing complex object data type such as:
* objects
* arrays
* strings
* numbers
* dates
* booleans
* nulls
* undefined
In the installation page there’s also an example of the usage in flash:
import com.macromedia.javascript.JavaScriptProxy;
var proxy:JavaScriptProxy = new JavaScriptProxy();
proxy.call("javaScriptMethodName", "arg1", new Object());
See docs here: http://www.osflash.org and http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/readme.html
Javascript quick reference
I was reading Christian Cantrell‘s weblog and i found a very useful link which display in the left sidebar of your firefox browser the javascript reference (css, dom, xsl, html, unicode tools).
In order to use check it out by saving this URL as a bookmark, and checking the ‘view in sidebar’ option in it’s properties: http://lachy.id.au/dev/mozilla/sidebar/sidebar.xul
Also very very useful the unicode tools
http://lachy.id.au/dev/mozilla/sidebar/sidebar.xul