JavaScript was invented in the mid-1990s as a programming language that could run inside a web page and make it interactive, says Kyle Simpson, director of web futures at Getify Solutions, which ...

There are dozens of ways to go about building a website or app, but you’ll always find a few building blocks at the heart of any development. HTML and CSS fall into that category, as does JavaScript.

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...