As an example of how both the new JavaScript engine and GPU offloading speeded IE9, LePage showed a demonstration, from the Microsoft test site of some JavaScript-based browser icons that spun around.

With JavaScript it depends on which features the browser supports so you would spend more time making sure the project looks good in all the browsers than actually developing the project," he said.

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser ...

Though created as a replacement for JavaScript in the browser, Google's Dart will now be compiled rather than run in its own VM Scratch one off for Google’s Dart language: One of its original ...

Google: Dart will rescue browsers from JavaScript The programming language for Web sites and Web apps is less complex and therefore easier to develop, Chrome programmers argue at Google I/O.

In his MWC keynote address, Lazaridis was quick to focus on the fact that the new, WebKit-based BlackBerry Browser not only loads JavaScript much faster, it handles AJAX efficiently, supports HTML ...

JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks Malicious code embedded in Web site can let miscreant map a home or corporate network, attack connected devices.