JavaScript is not a natural general purpose programming language, however the explosion of mobile devices and the large adoption of HTML5 and the resistance and non-support of browser plug-in ...

Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and supp ...

The San Francisco startup has a new SDK for JavaScript that makes it easier to build HTML5 apps. Parse has long billed itself as the "Heroku for Mobile," a service that takes over the hassle of ...

In this podcast, Looper compares native app development platforms for iOS and Android with hybrid mobile app development frameworks and JavaScript cross-platform mobile app development tools. As she ...

NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native iOS and Android apps in Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript. NativeScript not only taps native iOS and Android APIs, but also ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 5. Hitting a Breakpoint Wrapping Up I've demonstrated how the Chakra JavaScript engine can be accessed from a UWP app. This is an extremely powerful mechanism ...

JQ.Mobi features a query selector engine, UI library, and plug-ins. Unlike existing JavaScript UI frameworks such as JQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, jQ.Mobi is not hampered by any legacy roots in ...

A few days ago, developer Felix Krause shared a detailed report on how mobile apps can use their own in-app web browser to track user data. Now Krause is back with a new tool that lets anyone see ...

In iOS 5, though, it does. So, once iOS 5 is released to the public, all the Web apps that you have saved as icons on your home screen will run as fast as they do within Mobile Safari itself.

The JavaScript performance improvements that accompany iOS 4.3—boosting raw performance as much as 2.5x—don't appear to carry over to in-app browsers or Web apps saved to the home screen.