In hopes of propelling Firefox into the lead, Mozilla is developing a new JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey. To accomplish the feat, the outfit is borrowing some code from Apple's WebKit project.

Microsoft officially retired JScript years ago, along with proper support for the original Internet Explorer browser. However, the JScript engine still lingers in modern Windows installations, ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark.

Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. Facebook software ...