After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars.

JavaScript is a programming language that can be embedded in web pages to offer interactive features like sounds, menus, etc. Some browsers support this script while some do not.

Most Web sites use JavaScript, a powerful scripting language that helps make sites interactive. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of Web-based attacks use JavaScript tricks to foist malicious ...

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks Malicious code embedded in Web site can let miscreant map a home or corporate network, attack connected devices.

Of course, the developer also notes that not every app that injects JavaScript code into an in-app browser does so for malicious purposes, since JavaScript is the basis of many web features.

For example, Amazon's Web page has 600KB of JavaScript code, ESPN has 900KB, and CNN has 1.5MB. "Web developers are really pushing the limits of the platform," Lund said.

A recently revised JavaScript library now makes it possible to run untrusted JavaScript code, in either Node.js or a modern browser, via a sandboxed environment that provides a controlled way to ...

Though created as a replacement for JavaScript in the browser, Google's Dart will now be compiled rather than run in its own VM ...