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Microsoft officially retired JScript years ago, along with proper support for the original Internet Explorer browser. However ...
Nashorn, the JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine, could be deprecated, having been made obsolete by newer technologies. Nashorn debuted in Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 in 2014. It has ...
The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser anywhere between 5 and 50 times.
Avast disables JavaScript engine in its antivirus following major bug Vulnerability would have allowed attackers to take over computers running the Avast antivirus.
JavaScript engines in Web browsers have access to the HTML document object model (DOM) and can manipulate HTML elements through the DOM.
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.
Google's newest test versions of Chrome are equipped with a faster JavaScript engine, an increasingly important browser component for running Web-based programs. The result is faster-loading pages ...
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 ...
One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...
Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed ...