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New npm Packages Stealing SSH Keys

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JavaScript Trivia for Thursday February 13, 2014 When it first shipped with version two of Netscape’s Navigator web browser, JavaScript was known as LiveScript. And, even before that, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, originally gave the language this name. HINT: It shares its original name with a hot, chocolate beverage, as well as with a popular JavaScript testing framework.

Today’s WebDev Trivia Quiz

According to the W3C standard, an HTML script tag should have a type attribute, who’s value should be a MIME/content type. Although commonplace, we (web developers) almost always write this (incorrectly) as the value “text/javascript”; now – without looking – does anyone know what it actually should be?

Google’s Chrome Starfield Explorer Experiment

I love Google’s Chrome experiments. They showcase what can be done in the browser with JavaScript. 100,000 Stars.

Still Using Firebug?

As a web developer, I hadn’t decided to focus on front-end work until another developer told me about Firebug. When I started targeting mobile, I switched to the Developer Tools suite (DevTools) built in to Google’s Chrome browser. Two years later and I’m just beginning to realize what I’ve been missing. I was on the /r/javascript forum on RedditContinue reading “Still Using Firebug?”