Revealed – Skype for Web Beta

Skype has been breaking down barriers to communication for over a decade by being at the forefront of period voice and video.

During this time we’ve created Skype obtainable on computers, mobile phones, TVs and even games consoles.

Increasing to totally different platforms has helped us grow to over two billion daily minutes (that’s over thirty three million hours) of voice and video calls. 

Today, we’ve got some exciting news. We’re commencing to roll-out a different approach of using Skype.

Now, not solely will Skype be used on with regards to any screen you lay your hands on, however you'll be able to conjointly fancy Skype on a browser. Welcome, Skype for web (Beta).

Skype for web makes it faster and easier than ever before to attach with friends, family and colleagues round the world, for free of charge – directly from Skype.com. It’s excellent if you favor using the online instead of an app: maybe you’re sitting at a laptop that doesn’t have already got Skype downloaded. or even you’re on the go and using an online café or building laptop while on vacation wherever you can’t transfer Skype in any respect. using Skype for web makes it additional convenient to induce to your conversations.

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Cross-platform Apps with PhoneGap and JQuery

One of the biggest challenges of developing a mobile applications is to port the apps to assorted platforms.

This can advance to all-encompassing development costs, and the charge for assorted skillsets internally in adjustment to advance the application.

This has led to the development of a amount of technologies that accommodate a cross-platform solution.

Arguably, the popular of these technologies is PhoneGap. The solution allows developers to actualize applications with a familiar tool set: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

When PhoneGap is combined with a mobile web development framework, it's possible to develop cross-platform mobile applications quickly. One of the most popular frameworks is jQuery Mobile due to its simplicity and native look and feel.

Via: Techrepublic

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Flash to HTML5 Converter

Adobe today appear a tool, codenamed Wallaby, that converts Flash to HTML5.

After the ball surrounding the company’s Flash to iPhone conversion tool, Adobe is demography addition able at befitting Flash accordant as built-in web technologies bolt up to the format’s capabalities.

The apparatus is still in beginning development, but can be downloaded here. Once your activity is converted, you can plan with it as you would any HTML file.

At this stage, some Flash Professional appearance are unsupported.

Via: thenextweb

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Facebook : Rent a movie

If you were searching for something added advantageous to absorb Facebook credits on than basic trinkets for some game, Warner has an idea: all those movies you said you "liked."

 

Starting today it is testing out a plan to hire movies appropriate on their corresponding pages for 30 Facebook credits / $3 each. The aboriginal one on accouter is The Dark Knight (again?) which should be reside afterwards today, with added accessible to hire or acquirement in the future. there's no chat on resolution or added features, but at the amount we're bold SD only. Full data are in the columnist absolution afterwards the break, but the rentals accept the accepted 48-hour VOD window and can be paused/resumed artlessly by logging aback into Facebook. In its accepted state, we agnosticism Netflix, Amazon and the blow accept annihilation to anguish about as far as competition, but maybe Warner thinks it can snag a few bucks from artlessly authoritative abiding there's a buy button of some affectionate apprehension our assorted identities in as abounding places as possible.

Via: Engadget 

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Attractive IPad Application Website

Since the iPad has been released, the appliance bazaar has been growing rapidly. There are bags of apps advised just for the device. This agency that just like the iPad, abounding of these iPad applications accept their own website.

 

Domino Box

2Do

dribbblr

Night Stand HD

Acrylic Times

NotifyMeCloud

Calcbot

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Google (finally) pays bounties for Chrome bug reports Up to $1,337

Google will begin paying bounties as high as $1,337 to researchers who privately report high-severity security bugs in its Chrome browser and Chromium open-source project.

The "experimental new incentive," which Google announced Thursday, is for external researchers only.

It addresses a key complaint among many researchers that the security of far too many applications is built on the backs of people who receive no compensation for the countless hours they spend discovering and reporting critical vulnerabilities.

"It's a step in the right direction because it's compensating security researchers for their time in looking for vulnerabilities," said Dino Dai Zovi, a researcher who last year launched a campaign with the rallying cry "No more free bugs". "A lot of companies treat vulnerabilities as accidental discoveries, which is really not the case."

From : theregister

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Web creator apologises for his strokes

A LIGHT has been shone on one of the great mysteries of the internet. What is the point of the two forward slashes that sit directly infront of the "www" in every internet website address?

The answer, according to the British scientist who created the world wide web, is that there isn’t one.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote the code that transformed a private computer network into the web two decades ago, has finally come clean about the about the infuriating // that internet surfers have cursed so frequently.

The physicist admitted that if he had his time again, he might have made a change, or more specifically, two.

“Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //”, he said, speaking at a symposium on the future of technology in Washington DC last week.

From : australianit.news.com.au

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Facebook strips down to Lite site

The world's biggest social networking site has launched a slimmed-down version for people with slow or poor internet connections.

Facebook has said the Lite site will be faster and simpler because it offers fewer services than the main site.

Initially it is meant to support users in developing countries and where bandwidth constraints make the current version too slow to use.

At the moment it is only available in India and the US.

The company said around 70% of its more than 250 million users were from outside America. Countries in Southeast Asia and Europe are seeing a massive increase in growth where fast internet connections are more common.

News that Facebook was testing the Lite site was first leaked in August.

'Twitter-like'

The options on Facebook Lite are limited to letting users write on their wall, post photos and videos, view events and browse other people's profiles. There are no apps or special boxes.

"It appears, at a quick glance, to be a better site for Facebook newbies or for anyone who finds the current site overwhelming and noisy," said Rafe Needleman at technology website Cnet.

"The new layout feels almost Twitter-like."

Terence O'Brien at Switched.com gave the slimmed-down version of what he called "ol' blue" the thumbs-up because it "strips away distractions".

"The simple site loads noticeably faster, is easier to navigate, and is much easier on the eyes thanks to the lack of people sending you 'virtual booze' or asking you to join their 'vampire fraternity'.

"The new layout seems like a direct challenge to Twitter, which can attribute much of its success to is simplicity and portability," said Mr O'Brien.

More : news.bbc.co.uk

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US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox

US State Department workers have begged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to let them use Firefox.

"Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called Firefox?" worker bee Jim Finkle asked Clinton during Friday's State Department town hall meeting.

"I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was surprised that State doesn’t use this browser. It was approved for the entire intelligence community, so I don’t understand why State can’t use it. It’s a much safer program."

Presumably, the State Department is using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. And we wouldn't be surprised if it's still mired in the eight-year-old IE6. The only thing that moves slower than Orange is a US government agency. But the State Department has yet to respond to our questions about its Firefox-less browsing mandate.

Finkle's fellow workers responded to his Firefox request with applause. While Clinton responded with bewilderment. "Well, apparently, there’s a lot of support for this suggestion. I don’t know the answer. Pat, do you know the answer?" she said, turning to under Secretary Pat Kennedy.

"The answer is, at the moment: It’s an expense question," Kennedy said. Then someone in the audience pointed out that Firefox is free.

"Nothing is free," Kennedy responded. "It’s a question of the resources to manage multiple systems. It is something we’re looking at...It has to be administered. The patches have to be loaded. It may seem small, but when you’re running a worldwide operation and trying to push, as the Secretary rightly said, out FOBs [for remote log-ins] and other devices, you’re caught in the terrible bind of triage of trying to get the most out that you can, but knowing you can’t do everything at once."

Clinton then told her staff to have a look through their closets. "The more money we can save on stuff that is not cutting edge, the more resources we’ll have to shift to do things that will give us more tools," she said.

"[That reminds] me of what I occasionally sometimes do, which I call shopping in my closet, which means opening doors and seeing what I actually already have, which I really suggest to everybody, because it’s quite enlightening. And so when you go to the store and you buy, let’s say, peanut butter and you don’t realize you’ve got two jars already at the back of the shelf – I mean, that sounds simplistic, but help us save money on stuff that we shouldn’t be wasting money on, and give us the chance to manage our resources to do more things like Firefox, okay?"

If the State Department buys less peanut butter, Clinton may even let them use Facebook. During a state department town hall meeting earlier this year, a bigwig at the US embassy in Mexico City told Clinton that the social networking site is a great way to prevent solipsistic stupid people from entering the country.

From : The Register

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Twitter : Koobface Worm Comes To Twitter

The new thread begin to follow on Twitter.

The Koobface worm, which had popped up on social networks, has begun to spread on Twitter.

Koobface, the worm that’s been spreading among users of social networks Facebook and MySpace, is now on Twitter. How many people have been affected in unclear, but it’s been serious enough to Twitter to issue a warning on Friday, and some infected accounts have been suspended.
The company said:
"Some users’ PCs have been infected with a variant of the Koobface malware. This malware sends bogus tweets when the user logs into Twitter."
"We are currently suspending all accounts that we detect sending such bogus tweets. If we suspend your account, we will send you an email notifying you of the suspension. This email also includes tips for removing the malware from your PC."
The problem comes from infected PCs that upload bogus Tweets, containing a link to a supposed video, but which is actually to one of a number of sites loaded with exploit code, according to The Register. Anyone installing the codec from the site becomes infected.

From : news.digitaltrends.com

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Silverlight 3 Release To Web!

Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, highlights of new features and functionality of Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity.

Also, in order to fully integrate all the .NET developer tools, Visual Studio 2010 will support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silverlight.

Silverlight 3.0 What’s New page and Silverlight Program Manager Tim Heuer explains Silverlight 3.0 features in detailed on his blog, which is especially useful for developers.

Microsoft is going to host an online version of Silverlight 3.0 with Microsoft Expression 3.0 launch will be held at www.seethelight.com, which is set to online on July 10, 2009, the original launch date for Silverlight 3.0.

Experience Smooth Streaming

The Silverlight browser plug-in allows you to see Smooth Streaming in action on this page. (If Silverlight is not installed, please install it when prompted.) If the Internet bandwidth and video rendering capability on your playback device are sufficiently high, you'll experience high-definition video playback of the sample content. You will also be able to simulate end user experiences under varying conditions by simulating drops and recoveries in bandwidth. If your actual bandwidth is below 3 Mbps, or your playback device is video-challenged, then you will experience the adaptive nature of Smooth Streaming without needing to simulate a bandwidth cap. www.iis.net.

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Pirate Bay founders get rich in jail

A little-known Swedish software firm has snapped up file-sharing website The Pirate Bay with the hope of turning the source of legal controversy into a money-spinner that appeals to both users and content providers.

Global Gaming Factory X AB, which operates Internet cafes and provides software, said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns ($7.7 million).

The website made world headlines in April when the three Swedish founders and a financial backer were each sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to pay a combined $3.6 million in damages for breaching copyright law with the free downloading site, which was one of the biggest sites of its kind on the Internet.

Swedish News Agency TT cited one of the founders, Peter Sunde, as saying that the money would not go directly to him or any of the others sentenced in April.

Sunde told TT that the money would be placed in a company outside Swedish borders and it would be used for Internet projects other than downloading sites.

Pirate Bay could not be immediately reached for comment.

Global Gaming said it believed the website was a viable business with its plans for a new, legal business model.

"We would like to introduce (business) models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site," the company said in a statement.

USERS AS EARNERS

Global Gaming Chief Executive Hans Pandeya told a news conference that the revamped website would generate money via advertising, supplying storage space and helping telecom operators optimize Internet traffic.

He also said users would be able to earn money by supplying storage space, which would encourage people to use the site.

"That's what is interesting. If you can earn money by file-sharing, it's no big deal to pay for what you download," Pandeya said.

Analysts were unimpressed by the move, comparing it to Napster, an online file-sharing site that quickly lost popularity after it started to charge its users.

"It looks like they are going to Napsterize it," said Leigh Ellis, intellectual property partner at Gillhams Solicitors.

Mark Mulligan, vice president at research firm Forrester, said that many of Pirate Bay's around 20 million users would move on to other free downloading options.

More : reuters.com

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Download Firefox 3.5 RC2 - Try Now..

Try now the new Mozilla Firefox Version 3.5 RC2

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 is live and is available for download. This is the development milestone of the open source browser that will be made available to the general public.

Mozilla already started serving the RC of Firefox 3.5 as soon as June 16, but the availability process is not over yet.

In fact, June 19 marks the day that the final RC bits of Firefox 3.5 are going to be served to the public. Mozilla indicated that with the development of Firefox 3.5, formerly Firefox 3.1, and codenamed Shiretoko, it has changed the traditional process of wrapping up the browser.

Historically, step seven in the development evolution involved “shipping partial updates to beta-channel users and change the beta download page to point to the new development milestone,” revealed Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla. “So, what's new and exciting? We've realized that we can run this process in a more parallel fashion by splitting step 7 into: 7.1 ship partial updates to beta-channel users; 7.2 change the beta download page to point to the new development milestone.”

June 16 marked the availability of what Mozilla referred to as Firefox 3.5 RC1. June 19 brings to the table Firefox 3.5 RC2. While RC1 was a release aimed at the in excess of 800,000 testers of Firefox 3.5 Beta, RC2 is offered to the public. With Firefox 3.5 Beta 2, Mozilla will update the official Beta page, a detail that hasn't been done this far, since RC1 was pushed as an update to existing Beta users.

Mozilla has yet to officially announce Firefox 3.5 RC2; however, the bits did indeed go live on the company's FTP servers. I expect that later today, Mozilla will announce Firefox 3.5 RC2 and will update the beta download page accordingly. The final release of Firefox 3.5 is expected by the end of June 2009.
Download: Firefox 3.5 RC2

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Election Wave in Iran, America Request on Twitter to Keep Online

Some time ago, Twitter intend to do network maintenance because the action of the Iran disappointed and opinions on Twitter shed. This will cause the death of Twitter in a few hours. Hear this case, the United States government does not accept.

"Twitter is one of the region that allows communities of Iran 'exit' from the crisis. When they plan to stop the network for a while, we ask them to change the plan," said one of the Obama spokesman, Ian Kelly, as quoted by AFP on Wednesday, (6/17/2009).

According to the United States government, Twitter is important access can be relied upon by people of Iran are disappointed, along with blockade access to information via website, phone and media.

Hear this case, Twitter founder Biz Stone assumes that the decision of network maintenance was not came from Twitter management, but the owner of the network, namely NTT America.

However, Twitter management was still doing the termination of some access to perform maintenance.

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Flickr and Getty Images buy your photos

Getty Images, the world’s largest distributor of still imagery, has teamed up with Flickr, the photo-sharing website, to allow keen photographers around the world the chance to make some money out of their regular, everyday snaps.

Over the past 12 months, Getty has had 30 art directors scouring Flickr’s archive of three billion images to find the ones that will “sell” and have commercial appeal.

So far, the team has identified 100,000 images it would like to add to the “Getty Flickr” collection, which can be accessed by consumers and customers alike via www.gettyimages.com/flickr. There is also a supportive Facebook application called “PictureMe”. This allows Facebook users to attach photos from the collection to their status updates to help them visually express their mood.

The collection contains only 20,000 images at the moment, as the team is still waiting to hear back from the photographers responsible for the other 80,000 cherry-picked photos, or for rights clearance. Flickr users can “opt in” to have their photos considered by the Getty art directors by clicking on a designated tab once logged into their accounts.

The rest is up to Getty, which will then email the Flickr users who have a minimum of five photos which interest them. If they consent, a contract follows and the photographer has to set about ensuring each that any photo that includes a person or piece of property has the appropriate permission from all concerned parties. Once all the formal processes are completed, Getty can go about selling the images.

Five tips to get your pictures noticed

• Keep your approach original and fresh.
• Think about whether you will be able to contact any people in your photo again in case you need to obtain their permission. Possibly take down their contact details at the time, just in case.
• Regionality is always attractive – especially in areas such as the Far East, where the economy is booming. Photos of your travels which show off an area’s culture are very useful to us – this is something which we hope to build upon in the future.
• Humour always sells and is something to bear in mind.
• Don’t get into stale patterns. Keep snapping only what matters to you and not what you might think will sell.

Source : Telegraph

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Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames

From the beginning of Facebook, people have used their real names to share and connect with the people they know. This authenticity helps to create a trusted environment because you know the identity of the people and things on Facebook.

The one place, though, where your identity wasn't reflected was in the Web address for your profile or the Facebook Pages you administer. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like "id=592952074." That soon will change.

We're planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.

Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings here.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You'll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

Source : blog.facebook.com

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Yahoo 360 ° Blog Closed!

After almost two years without giving any support, Yahoo finally close the social blog-centric . Web Yahoo 360 Degrees will be closed on 13 July 2009. During more than four years, the site was never actually finished out of beta.

In an email to its members, Yahoo convey, "We will officially close Yahoo 360 ° on 13 July 2009, to focus our efforts to create a new profile on Yahoo where you can connect with all people. Therefore, the information necessary to move your Yahoo 360 ° to profile before the new date. After 12 July 2009, the content in your Yahoo 360 ° is no longer accessible. "

Yahoo 360 ° was launched in March 2005. This site does not have to be big in the United States in October 2007 and Yahoo has decided to stop providing support in the process of development.

However, in other countries, especially Vietnam, Yahoo 360 ° is a  most popular portal site for blogging. For this reason, the user's Yahoo 360 ° Vietnam can be migrated from Yahoo 360 to Yahoo 360 plus, a product specifically made for the Vietnamese market which was published since a year ago.

In August Yahoo Mash also close, one of the web site's own social network that also failed to develop.

Yahoo suggest to the user 360 to move the blog soon, or save the profile and download the contacts to the computer. As a form of responsibility Yahoo 360 provides features that their user can migrate to other blog sites.

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6zap - Open source Web 2.0 communication platform

6zap is a full-featured, open source communications platform that integrates e-mail, calendar and contacts functionality into a single page.
Built with Web 2.0 technologies as a foundation, 6zap is intuitive and easy to use. It enables users to simply switch back and forth between applications, returning to the last message, contact or calendar entry they viewed.

Components

E-Mail

The 6zap E-mail module offers the familiar three pane interface used by Outlook, Thunderbird and other desktop based e-mail programs. 

• Recognizable Look and Feel: The three-pane view includes folder tree, message list and message preview, and supports common folder, message, attachment and template functionality as well as spell check.
• Customizable: Users can choose number of messages on page, auto save interval, saving sent messages, default compose mode, signature and language.
• Drag and drop the messages to a folder to save them or delete them.
• Compose emails in rich or plain text.
• Fix spelling errors with the integrated spell-checker.
• Right click on a message to print, move, reply, forward, delete, etc.

Calendar

The 6zap Calendar module offers an intuitive, yet powerful features to schedule and share your events.

• User Friendly: Create and move events using drag and drop.
• Multiple Views: Day, week, work week and month views.
• Recurring Events: Provides support for the creation and viewing of recurring daily, weekly and monthly events.
• Multiple Calendars: Events for different calendars are displayed in different colors.
• Multi-user Capabilities: View calendars of other people in your organization.
• Access Control: Each calendar has permissions associated with it giving users the ability to create, update and delete events.

Contacts

The 6zap contacts module lets the user add and delete associates and friends.

• Unlimited Attributes Per Contact: Each contact can have multiple e-mail accounts, phone numbers and other contact information.
• Integrated with the other modules:  When typing an e-mail address in the E-mail or Calendar modules, the full address auto-completes from your contacts.

Files

The 6zap files module lets the user upload and manage files on 6zap.

• Desktop like experience: Uploaded files and created directories behave desktop like, you can rename, drag and sort them just like you do on your desktop.
• User friendly folder navigation:  Browse through folders using explorer-like left navigation pannel.
• New features added at regular basis: Stable work with new interface features.

Customization and Branding

6zap can be fully customized and branded – in look and feel, as well as each module’s behavior – to meet the needs of your unique environment. 
CSS Templates

• The look and feel of the different modules is controlled via standard CSS files. All colors, images and fonts can easily be changed by altering these files.
• JSON Interface and Client Side Templating
• All data in 6zap is fetched from the server using JSON. The user interface is fully defined in HTML and Zapatec's client side templating engine. As a result, designers can fully change the user interface without affecting any of the server side code.

Internationalization

6zap can be used around the world:

• All modules can be used in different languages by translating the text of the different messages.
• The calendar supports different time zones and time/date formats, and allows users to select the first day of the week.

More : 6zap.com

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Web developers. You suck.

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back.

To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet.

No, I’m not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

To list a few examples of websites coated with syntax errors (at the time of writing):

1. http://slashdot.org/. Slashdot for god’s sake!! On the homepage!
2. http://digg.com/. Try posting a new dig article with a thumbnail.
3. http://www.computerworld.com/ come on.
4. http://www.somethingawful.com/
5. http://www.pcmag.com/
6. http://www.washingtonpost.com

The list really does go on. With script debugging enabled, the internet becomes an almost unusable, frustrating place. Especially if you couple this with a delightful bug in Internet Explorer, that causes it to freeze if two of your open and loading tabs both have a modal JavaScript error box waiting for a response.
Anyone who writes production JavaScript should always have script debugging enabled. If not just to help catch your own mistakes - but also to see how infuriating it can be to simply use the internet while being forced to close millions of error dialogs.

This alone should convince you to write better JavaScript.

To enable script debugging:
Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/ - Un-check "Disable Script Debugging"

When disabled, this will cause a small error box to show if there is a syntax (or execution) error in any JavaScript code.

Slashdot: 15 July 2008

If you wish, you can click the “Debug” option, and this will offer you the option of opening visual studio, letting you step through the broken code.

I’m sure you’ll all agree that correct JavaScript should not be a lofty goal to aim for.

Dave

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Source: objectreference.net

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