With its Dart language, Google hopes to overcome problems with the widely used JavaScript. But some dislike Google's secretive development style. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of ...

Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse ...

The Internet is about to hit its fourth major shift in server architecture. The early days were powered by simple Perl applications. As the dotcom hit, Java application servers running on highend UNIX ...

JavaScript has gone through a number of changes in the past few years. Implementations have become faster, more standardized and more stable. The development and growth of open-source JavaScript ...

Palm Mojo SDK 1.1 feels unfinished, but has enormous potential. Palm’s new webOS places classic JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the driver’s seat for the apps for the Palm Pre. Borrowing the tools from ...

Ajax is the hot new Web development paradigm that uses JavaScript to send and then handle asynchronous HTTP requests. The past few months, this column has looked into different ways to spawn and ...