How did a small JavaScript library become one of the most influential tools in web history? In just 100 seconds, The Legend of jQuery traces its rise from a clever shortcut for developers to a global ...

PaaS provider Structure sees Node.js and JavaScript offering an easier route than languages like C and C++ if it can overcome its footprint issues With the availability of boards like Raspberry Pi and ...

Samsung has begun offering a stable 1.0 release of JerryScript, its lightweight JavaScript engine for the internet of things (IoT). Requiring less than 64KB of system RAM, the open source engine is ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

Microsoft is restricting access to Internet Explorer mode in Edge browser after learning that hackers are leveraging zero-day ...

According to Microsoft's investigation, the attack chain started when users were tricked into visiting exploitative websites.

After more than 18 months of hard graft, Mozilla has finally succeeded in landing a big addition to Firefox's JavaScript engine that, upon initial testing, speeds up the web -- or at least the vast ...

Most modern browsers, like Firefox, Safari and Opera, offer support for PNG images with full alpha channel transparency. Even Internet Explorer 7 has gotten in on the PNG transparency act, which means ...

Despite increases in CPU and broadband speeds, the 'Net stubbornly refuses to get much faster. The WebKit team behind Apple's browser Safari has found an important contributor to the Web's slowness: ...