“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

JavaScript turns 30–and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...

The programming language ' JavaScript ', which is indispensable for modern websites, was originally released as a language that complements Java, but now it is not limited to that position, but ...

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We may have been looking to MIX10 for its juicy Windows Phone 7 series tidbits – and have you seen our demo videos of the latest apps and functionality? – but smartphones aren't the only think ...

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 ...

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 ...

The code, which uses JavaScript to turn any Web browser into a hacker's tool, was created as a demonstration of how JavaScript can be used to dodge security measures Software that could be used to ...

Earlier this year whilst Steve Bowbrick was blogger in residence for BBC FM&T, he spent some time looking at "openness" at the BBC. Part of Steve's definition of openness was the "uncomplicated, ...

Remember those colored bricks you used to play with as a child, or possibly much more recently? They were great, and still are, for building anything from bridges to trains. But in hindsight they ...