After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars. JavaScript, which lets developers ...

All Microsoft's browser rivals are scrambling to speed up JavaScript, trying to get ahead as the Web expands into a foundation for programs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

In a surprise nod to the open source community, software giant Adobe has announced it is contributing its ActionScript Virutal Machine to the open source Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will use the code ...