If you browse the Web today, your browser will probably download and run nonfree JavaScript software on your behalf. You should be able to say no to that software—but to date, that hasn't been practical. JavaScript License Web Labels are our newest effort to make this easier.
Read more »FSF Announces JavaScript License Web Label
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FSFE Fellowship Interview with Heiki Ojasild
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For our January fellowship interview we met Heiki Ojasild. He joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian, his mother tongue. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, as well as a website for free SVG and JavaScript games. In 2010 he took part in the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics.
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Avoid the pitfalls of the JavaScript Trap on Gmail
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Today we're launching the first in a series of features on how to use common websites without using proprietary JavaScript. You may not be aware of the dangers of JavaScript -- a problem we've deemed The JavaScript Trap -- proprietary software running on your computer, inside your web browser. The focus of our first feature is Google's Gmail service.
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Call for IceCat developers
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The GNU Icecat project is a web browser built to deal with the influx of threats to freedom and privacy on the web from traps such as nonfree plugins and nonfree JavaScript.
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Firefox's New "JaegerMonkey" JavaScript Engine is Revving Up, About 20% Faster
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Firefox 4.0 is probably going to be one among the most important release Mozilla team has ever made. Competition is breathing down its neck like never before. Even IE, in its latest avatar(read IE9) is fast becoming a better piece of software.
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Modify NoScript so it can detect and block nontrivial nonfree JavaScript code
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"Richard Stallman is looking for someone to modify NoScript so it can detect and block nontrivial nonfree JavaScript code..."
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Create a Photostream Using jQuery and the Flickr API
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An article on how to use jQuery and the Flickr API to add a photostream to your blog.
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When Javascript became the world's new CPU
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The computing world is always very unpredictable. That must be why there is a small number of people who make large amounts of money from it: they are in the right (unpredictable) place, at the right (unpredictable) time. Who would have ever guessed that Javascript, a simple scripting language initially thought as a simple means to make web pages "cooler", would become... drum roll...
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JavaScript programmers, rejoice! It's been a good week for open source from big companies. Earlier this week Yahoo! released its Traffic Server it acquired from Inktomi, and now Google has unleashed Closure Tools. These are part of the toolset that Google uses to create JavaScript-heavy applications like Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Maps.
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How to: add features to Firefox with Mozilla's new Jetpack
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"Mozilla's new Jetpack project makes it easy to enhance the Firefox web browser by using conventional HTML and JavaScript. In this hands-on tutorial, we introduce you to Jetpack and use it to add a Digg counter to the browser's statusbar..."
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espresso-mode 7
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"espresso-mode is a Javascript-mode for GNU Emacs. Its features include: ..."
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Avoiding the JavaScript trap
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We're not going to bore you by talking about free beer versus free speech - that's an old argument and one with which we hope you're familiar by now. Instead, we want you to focus on the web services you rely on. Think Google. Think Gmail. Think Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm or any number of others.
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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 13, April 2009
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* Version 2.2 of gNewSense released
* FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference
* Winners of the annual free software awards announced!
* Help spring the Javascript Trap
* European Elections and the Free Software Pact
* Can you help the Open Graphics Project?
* Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN
* Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort
Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions in JavaScript
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The tutorial walks you through the primitive data types in JavaScript, such as strings and numbers. Moreover, it takes you through the common operators, and explains the flow control statements, such as loops and if-else conditions.
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Build Powerful Websites Using JavaScript and jQuery with New Drupal Book
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Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery book will give users the keys to the toolbox, detailing how to use Drupal’s JavaScript libraries to make modules and themes more dynamic, interactive and responsive and help to create powerful AJAX-enabled scripts, striking visual effects, and view-enhancing behaviours using jQuery
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