This is not to say that the IE9 JavaScript engine is a slouch. Microsoft is revamping its JavaScript engine for the IE 9 release, making a number of changes that should speed performance.

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled.

Google has shipped a new JavaScript compiler for its V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome called Sparkplug that promises a much faster web experience – and it does it by 'cheating', according to the ...

Microsoft announced plans to open-source the JavaScript engine behind its Edge Web browser.

Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is intended to be the fastest JavaScript engine on the planet, according to Opera. Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times ...

V8 (and the Firefox engine and, I believe, other high-performance JavaScript engines) tries to remedy this problem by generating synthetic hidden classes, which can then be shared among multiple ...

The WebKit team has announced its next-generation JavaScript engine, called SquirrelFish Extreme, before the previous SquirrelFish even made it into a shipping product. In the last three months ...

As the beta release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 looms large, speedy new additions to Firefox 4 promise stiff competition.

Learn how to implement Javascript redirects while mitigating as much risk as possible based on Google documentation.