Xah Web Dev Blog Archive 2017-06

Common Web Fonts (added screenshot for correct illustration)

escape (major rewrite)

String.prototype.charAt (updated)

Character, Code Unit, Codepoint (minor update)

String.fromCharCode (minor update)

Function Declaration vs Function Expression (updated for ES2015)

var Name Scope (updated for ES2015)

var Declaration Order (Name Hoisting) (minor update)

Netflix switched from Java to node.js

[Making Netflix.com Faster 2015-08-05 By Kristofer Baxter. At https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/making-netflix-com-faster-f95d15f2e972 , accessed on 2017-07-01 ]

paypal switched from Java to node.js

[Node.js at PayPal 2013-11-22 By Jeff Harrell. At https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-paypal/ , accessed on 2017-07-01 ]

Google trying to prevent user downloading brave browser?