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 ...

We all know how dangerous it can be to try and open an email attachment from an address you don't recognize, so we don't do it, right? But that's only part of the problem. What if someone you know had ...

If you have a JavaScript (*.js) file containing code, it's not unusual for your code to reference code held in another JavaScript file. If you're using more recent versions of Visual Studio, you'll ...

Email attachments are probably the most common mechanism for infecting a Windows computer. As potential victims get wise to the tried and true infection schemes, bad guys have a relatively new wrinkle ...

I have thousands of html files on my local drive and would like an easy way to browse them in Firefox. Right now, I'm manually opening groups of 25 at a time in separate tabs. Ideally, there'd be a ...

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 ...

Even with competition from newer runtimes Deno and Bun, Node.js remains the flagship JavaScript platform on the server. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a ...

WebStorm, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Komodo, and Eclipse pull out the stops for JavaScript, Node.js, and friends. JavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications ...

The other day I wrote about how it might be time to shift away from Google Chrome if you're finding that it's getting slow and sluggish. There are plenty of good browsers out there if Chrome isn't ...