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Updated Getter/Setter Syntax in IE8 RC 1
D' Technology Weblog — ... a high-quality DOM prototypes implementation, but we’ve been able to change the getter/setter implementation to follow the draft ECMAScript 3.1 standard. While our JavaScript engine and DOM won’t have support for all of the ECMAScript 3.1 enhancements in this release, it does mean that web developer code written to add getters and setters to the DOM in Internet Explorer 8 will continue to work now and into the future, since that code will be based on web-standards. Full Article ...

IE 8: How to Target a Moving Web Standard
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... has been actively involved in the shaping of the ECMAScript specification. Indeed, Microsoft and others helped defeat a proposed ECMAScript 4 specification last year, instead pushing for the completion of what will be known as ECMAScript 3.1. However, as the ECMAScript standard has not changed since ECMAScript 3 came out in 1999, it's clear that a change is due. And it is coming soon, while Microsoft is smack dab in the middle of finishing up work on its IE 8 browser. So, as Travis Leithead, an IE 8 program manager, wrote in a recent blog post : "Despite our best planning ...

SitePoint Podcast #7: Let’s Get Twitter Out of Our System
SitePoint — ... Axes Dodgeball, Jaiku, Video and More (TechCrunch) Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor (Google) Lycos Shuts Down Mail, Tripod Lycos Europe To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15 (TechCrunch) IE8 RC Will Be Out By the End of January Browser Showdown At The Churchill Club; IE 8 Release Candidate Coming This Month (TechCrunch) Responding to Change: Updated Getter/Setter Syntax in IE8 RC 1 (IEBlog) ...