JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn't extend to Web apps saved to a user's home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...

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Beyond the usual quick tips, let's look at both the business case and the technical side of keeping React bundles lean.

A big part of MEAN’s appeal is the consistency that comes from the fact that it’s JavaScript through and through. Life is simpler for developers because every component of the application—from the ...

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google’s Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues. JavaScript is often used in a way that was never intended ...

The JavaScript performance improvements that accompany iOS 4.3—boosting raw performance as much as 2.5x—don't appear to carry over to in-app browsers or Web apps saved to the home screen. Another bug ...

JavaScript web apps and web servers are susceptible to a specific type of vulnerabilities/attacks known as regular expression (regex) denial of service (ReDoS). These vulnerabilities take place when ...

Of course, the developer also notes that not every app that injects JavaScript code into an in-app browser does so for malicious purposes, since JavaScript is the basis of many web features.