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 ...

For native iOS apps, that language is Objective-C or Swift, while for native Android apps that language is Java. For NativeScript, that language is JavaScript.

Parse, the Y Combinator-backed startup that powers the back-end for mobile apps like Band of the Day and Hipmunk, is rolling out support for mobile web apps too. The San Francisco startup has a ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.