The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as fast ...

Google has set up a research grant program to help and sponsor security researchers and academics find vulnerabilities in browser JavaScript engines. The program has one rule, namely that the bugs ...

The biggest jump in JavaScript performance since Chrome was introduced will help fan the flames of today's hot browser competition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used for ...

The Opera web browser could soon get a script execution performance boost from a new JavaScript engine that supports native code generation. The new engine, which is called Carakan, was unveiled ...

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 ...

When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer (IE) 9, one of the key new components of that browser was its JavaScript engine, codenamed "Chakra." Chakra is still alive and well in IE10, and will be ...

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used for ...

Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the public beta version of Internet Explorer 9, but Mozilla has been busier than ever fortifying its Firefox browser with upgrades and new additions designed ...

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled. JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic ...