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Symantec Claims Zero Day Flash Vulnerability Likely to be Exploited
Symantec is reporting that the zero-day vulnerability discovered (and weaponised) in the HackDay leak allows for remote code execution. Adobe will be updating Flash in the near future but disabling Flash may be the only solution at the moment.
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Google Brings Material Design to CSS, HTML, and JavaScript
Google Material Design Lite) (MDL) aims to enable material design look and feel for websites. Material design is a visual language that is standard on Android and that Google is proposing cross-platform.
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Firefox 38 Released, Adds Support for DRM
Version 38 of Mozilla Firefox has been released, adding new HTML5 features and support for DRM-protected content on Windows.
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New F12 Developer Tools for the New Microsoft Edge
Microsoft's new web browser, Edge, comes with new F12 developer tools built in TypeScript.
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Chrome 42 Disables NPAPI and Related Plug-ins: Java, Unity, Silverlight
As outlined in the NPAPI Deprecation Guide, Chrome 42, which was due this month and was recently released to the stable channel, has disabled support for the Netscape Plug-in API. The reason is that NPAPI “has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity” and the intent was first announced in 2013.
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Firefox 37 Brings Native Playback of HTML5 Video
Mozilla has released Firefox 37, bringing native playback of HTML5 video for Windows, and many security changes.
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Flipboard Pushing Boundaries With Its Web Version Release
Recently, Flipboard has released the web version of its social-network aggregation magazine-format reader. This release aims to bring to the browser the same reading experience users have on Flipboard native applications. To accomplish it, the team responsible for the development had to push boundaries in web technologies to match its native apps counterparts.
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Microsoft Shares Details on Spartan Rendering Engine
Microsoft has provided new information on the reasoning behind the switch to a brand new rendering engine for Project Spartan, the web browser shipping with Windows 10. The new engine is a fork of Trident and eliminates swathes of code that have been in place for 20 years.
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Microsoft Open Sources TouchDevelop Containing 160K LoC
Microsoft has open source their research project TouchDevelop, which contains about 160K lines of code mostly written in TypeScript.
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Twitter Unveils Digits Login for Web
Twitter has officially released Digits Login for Web, the latest interaction of Digits that extends the SMS-based login system to mobile app's sites powered by Digits.
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YouTube Switches to HTML5 Video Player
After many years of working on HTML5 support, YouTube has decided to use their HTML5 video player as the default for modern browsers, using the old Flash-based player only for legacy browsers. Using MPEG-DASH and W3C Media Source Extensions, YouTube can use Adaptive Bitrate streaming to reduce buffering and improve initial playback speed.
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The Current Status of Browser-based Virtual Reality in HTML5
The SFHTML5 group recently had a meeting discussing HTML5 technologies for creating virtual reality experiences – WebGL, WebVR, Three.js, GLAM –, and the current development status for implementing support for them in Firefox and Chrome. The idea is to bring the entire web into the VR experience.
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DevExpress on the Future of WinForms and Silverlight
You can tell a lot about the future of a UI toolkit by how the third party control vendors are treating it. Since their revenue is based around correctly predicting what developers are going to be using in the near future, they spend a lot of time and effort researching the topic. In this report, we’ll be looking at DevExpress and their treatment of WinForms and Silverlight.
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Supersonic Framework Touts Native Performance for Android and iOS Hybrid Apps
AppGyver has announced Supersonic, a new framework to build hybrid mobile apps on Android and iOS that promises to provide "real native performance," says AppGyver, thanks to a novel approach to designing hybrid apps. Supersonic is also integrated with Steroids, an impressive cross-platform IDE for hybrid apps.
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ZURB Releases a Framework for Creating Responsive Apps
ZURB, a web design company and creator of Foundation (for Sites), has announced and open sourced another framework called Foundation for Apps (FA). FA provides HTML5/JavaScript tools for creating responsive web applications for desktop and mobile devices.