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.

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 ...

For example, Amazon's Web page has 600KB of JavaScript code, ESPN has 900KB, and CNN has 1.5MB. "Web developers are really pushing the limits of the platform," Lund said.

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

Here's a look at JavaScript’s renaissance—from being just a web application enabler to evolving into a powerful AI platform.

A recently revised JavaScript library now makes it possible to run untrusted JavaScript code, in either Node.js or a modern browser, via a sandboxed environment that provides a controlled way to ...

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.

Though created as a replacement for JavaScript in the browser, Google's Dart will now be compiled rather than run in its own VM ...