Microsoft's first browser shipped with their own flavor of JavaScript called JScript. Today, JavaScript makes the world go 'round. It runs on every computer. Every phone. TVs. Even some appliances.

In my last column, I wrote about what JavaScript is, and what it can and can’t do. This time around, it’s time to actually start working with code. It’s a long-standing tradition in the ...

JavaScript. The slow death of third-party binary plug-ins has ruled out other languages, such as Java and Flash’s ActionScript, as first-class citizens for web development. Other web languages ...

Functions are first-class objects and they’re tossed ... Almost everyone I know who writes JavaScript for the Web also uses a library like jQuery to smooth out the differences among browsers.

Although pundits have joked that Java’s “write once, run everywhere” slogan might be better expressed as “write once, debug everywhere,” a relative of Java — JavaScript — has ...