Blackbird’s Educational Version of JavaScript, for the first time, makes it feasible for middle school students and teachers to learn to code – and forms the foundation of Blackbird’s online system ...

One look at the dialects of ECMAScript shows what we're dealing with. Gecko browsers are using JavaScript 1.6, Microsoft is using Jscript version 5.6 and KHTML browsers are still on JavaScript 1.5.

There are a lot of proposals in ECMAScript 7. The reality is that JavaScript, in many senses, serves two masters. It serves not just practitioners using JavaScript directly, but it serves compilers.

To improve parsing speed, V8 Version 7.2 includes what Google calls the engine’s fastest-ever JavaScript parser, resulting in quicker page loading and more-responsive pages.

The jQuery framework has hit a huge milestone, version 2.0. This release may be most notable for what's not in it -- namely support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. If you're a jQuery fan, but ...

TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today.