Unlike many other scripting languages, JavaScript's standard library is very slim and doesn't come with very much additional infrastructure. Developers who build GTK+ applications with Seed will ...

Let's take a look at what's on offer out there. Desktop Apps Electron is an open-source framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Under the covers it uses the ...

Create a variable in the JavaScript tags to initialize an ActiveX object that can run commands through a command line: Add another line inside the script tags to run a desktop application.

Ars takes a close look at Seed, a new framework that allows software developers to build GTK+ applications with JavaScript. The popular web scripting language could soon become the dominant ...

GNOME, KDE, and Linux desktop developers all agree Flatpak and Snap are the future of Linux desktop application delivery.

JavaScript APIs are more popular than ever, especially now given the fact that so many organizations are now making their back-end services available through RESTful APIs that can be easily invoked by ...

When AJAX, otherwise known as Asynchronous Javascript and XML, first became all the rage (mostly thanks to Google), Microsoft didn't waste anytime reminding AJAX-watchers that it pioneered the ...

Firefox for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android has just been released to Mozilla’s stable channel and the Google Play Store with a few minor improvements and tweaks. On the desktop, the biggest ...