March 2010 Archives

I'll be speaking tonight in Vancouver, BC about the new features of ECMAScript 5.
Details here.

I'll post the slides after I give the talk.

Update: Here are the slides.

Its that time of year again!

This is the 7th anniversary of the war the US started with Iraq. The score so far:

Cost to US taxpayers

$713 Billion

US soldiers killed

4385

US soldiers wounded

31616 (though December 2009)

Individually documented Iraqi civilian deaths

About 100,000.

Statistically extrapolated civilian deaths

655,000 deaths (2.5% of the population of the areas surveyed) directly and indirectly caused by the war (through July 2006).

I don't think I can really describe just how angry this makes me.

Microsoft has released a testdrive version of IE9 that includes support for:

1. addEventListener()
2. CSS3 Selectors
3. CSS border-radius style for rounded corners
4. SVG (no word on <canvas>, as far as I know, however)

Items 2, 3 & 4 are probably bigger news than item 1, but IE's lack of support for addEventListener() has always really irritated me. Finally, more than a decade after it was standardized, IE will support it. That means that by 2015 we can stop writing code that checks for addEventListener() and falls back on attachEvent().