JavaScript has established itself as a programming language of choice for web applications, thanks in part to a sharp rise in popularity with the launch of native frameworks for building scalable ...

Most Web sites use JavaScript, a powerful scripting language that helps make sites interactive. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of Web-based attacks use JavaScript tricks to foist malicious software ...

"The web is evolving and so should the JavaScript benchmarks that measure its performance," says the Google blog announcing Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark. Due to this, Google has ditched the ...

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Microsoft's new browser, Edge, has a new rendering engine, EdgeHTML. Like Edge, the new rendering engine is only available in Windows 10, but it does more than just power the company's new browser: It ...

JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, the standard way of building applications that run inside the browser. Created in the mid-'90s by an engineer at Netscape—the company that first pushed the ...

When browsing the Internet, our computer is exposed to various malicious attacks. One of the most common online threats is malicious and suspicious web pages. These malicious web pages look like any ...

I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...