Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it’s one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with ...

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Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

This has been a big year for JavaScript. New, fast engines have tested their legs. Libraries have matured. With the ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the language is growing. However, the language remains ...

A small program that is run on the user's machine. For example, JavaScript scripts are widely used on Web pages that are executed in the client machine. Contrast with server-side script. THIS ...

Many Web pages use complex JavaScript scripts to interact with you, save your preferences or gather information about visitors to the site. If your Mozilla Firefox Web browser is set to block ...