InfoWorld

Using JavaScript’s built-in objects

Object is the root object of all prototypes in JavaScript. Aside from providing the foundation for the JavaScript object model, Object imparts important methods such as toString() and assign(). Every ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
Ars Technica

JavaScript question about function objects and if what I'm trying to do is possible

For a multi-step form I've defined some input validation functions called validate_step1(), validate_step2() and validate_step3() that are being used as callbacks in a jQuery plugin.<BR><BR>I did a ...
TheServerSide

From the mobile browser to the cloud: The expanding role of JavaScript

It's not news to find out that JavaScript has become the new crowd favorite for front-end development, but what is surprising is how quickly it is also catching on in the back end, powering many of ...
InfoWorld

Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine gets a tuneup

V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For its ...