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KidZui
"KidZui turns Firefox into fun, kid-safe browser with over a million kids games, YouTube videos, and websites." Keep thinking about how we have barely begun in using computers and the Internet for education.
Using catch-alls to implement super in SpiderMonkey
"Yesterday morning (when reading a lengthy email to es-discuss) I realized that I could probably use catch-alls to emulate super. Catch-alls is a SpiderMonkey feature that allows an object to have a method that will be called when a non existing method is called. Catch-alls are proposed for ES-Harmony."
JavaFX 1.0 - Now you can judge for yourself
Chris: "I believe JavaFX 1.0 is a good, incremental step in overcoming some of our past mistakes, while preserving continuity with both standard JavaSE and JavaME."
JSMIPS
JSMIPS is a general-purpose simulator for MIPS that (at least hypothetically) runs in any browser that supports JavaScript (ECMAScript, JScript, etc). JSMIPS consists of a MIPS simulator with JIT compilation and a modular kernel written in JavaScript.