Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit ...

Google's V8 engine for running JavaScript programs in Chrome is getting steadily more complex, a big problem for speeding up code, Google's Lars Bak said at Google I/O. Stephen Shankland/CNET ...

Microsoft Gaurav Seth, principal program manager lead at Microsoft, announces at the JSConf US Last Call conference on Friday that the Chakra JavaScript engine will be an open source project. In a ...

Japan, the EU, and the UK all now require Apple to support third-party browser engines. That's great news for the open web.

In iOS 17.4 for the iPhone, browsers like Chrome and Firefox will be able to leave WebKit for their own underlying engines. But that’s only true in the EU.

That is where the Javascript JIT or Just-in-Time compiler comes in, which is now a standard feature in almost all Javascript engines used by web browsers, including Chromium's V8 engine.