Although the programming language was initially designed for Netscape, one of the first Internet browsers to incorporate smart functionality, other web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla ...

Douglas Crockford, master JavaScript programmer, author of JavaScript: The Good Parts and the popular JSlint, spoke this morning at Columbia University on Why JavaScript Matters. Apparently he spoke ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, California – When Doug Crockford first encountered JavaScript, his first impression was that it was "one of the most incompetent pieces of software engineering [he'd] ever seen." His ...

Conferences about new development environments, such as AJAX, typically feature sessions showing cool new things you can do with it. Inevitably, though, some sessions will focus on security issues.