A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla’s Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the World ...

If you want to get a browser game running as quickly as possible, my own measurements show that JavaScript requires fewer steps.When I built the same number-guessing game in both JavaScript and Python ...

Google will soon begin blocking Javascript attachments in Gmail in an effort to protect users form malicious attacks. The ban will take effect beginning February 13 and expands upon the service's ...

An update was added to the end of the article explaining that any Authenticode-signed file, including executables, can be modified to bypass warnings. A new Windows zero-day allows threat actors to ...

Google's John Mueller clarified whether site owners can use robots.txt to block Googlebot from downloading specific resources that users see.

RAA is currently being distributed via emails as attachments that pretend to be doc files and have names like mgJaXnwanxlS_doc_.js. When the JS file is opened it will encrypt the computer and then ...

In a new video from Google, Developer Advocate Alan Kent shares six ways to optimize JavaScript to improve the performance of your website. Kent identifies common performance problems caused by ...