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Submission + - Game of Life in JavaScript and the Canvas Tag

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snowball

on Monday February 05, 2007 @09:54AM

snowball writes: "0xfe has a good demo of the canvas tag, which is a new HTML tag introduced by Apple in Safari, and now available in most modern browsers (Firefox, Camino, Opera, etc.). The tag allows for easy drawing, rendering, and animation of SVG, right on the web-page, with JavaScript. This blog post introduces the tag, with an awesome embeddable version of the Game of Life. Is this the dawn of a new age of embeddable graphical widgets, without Flash?

As expected, Internet Explorer does not support it."

Submission + - Woman with bionic arm regains sense of touch

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Monday February 05, 2007 @07:22AM

MattSparkes writes: "A new prosthetic arm allows the wearer to perform tasks faster than was previously possible, and also to regain their sense of touch. There's a video here, which shows how much faster the arm can achieve tasks then previous models."

MS Office Zero-Day Under Attack 172

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 04, 2007 @06:52PM from the you-know-they've-released-new-software-when dept.

paulBarbs writes "Microsoft is warning users to be on the lookout for suspicious Excel files that arrive unexpectedly — even if they come from a co-worker's e-mail address. In an advisory, Microsoft confirmed a new wave of limited "zero-day" attacks was underway, using a code execution flaw in its Microsoft Office desktop productivity suite. Although .xls files are currently being used to launch the spear phishing attacks, Microsoft said users of other Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, etc.) are potentially at risk."

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