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JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

Baltimore JavaScript Users Group: Forget jQuery. Flyleaf, a device-agnostic JavaScript framework, is where it’s at for creating serious web apps. So says our local JavaScript Users Group. Head to the ...

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn’t extend to Web apps saved to a user’s home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...

With JSweet, which recently became available via open source, developers can leverage their Java skills to build Web apps in JavaScript. The technology transpiles from Java to TypeScript and, in turn, ...

The web may have been created to share static documents, but today web browsers are capable of supporting sites that are getting close to the look and feel of apps we run directly on our phones and ...

Slack is a web app. Trello is a web app. Google Docs. Gmail. Even Twitter. The web started out as a collection of hyperlinked documents. The “Web 2.0” hype in the mid-2000s was about how the web was ...

JavaScript, by being the language supported in all mainstream browsers, has been key to the development of browser-based web apps, garnering attention from multitudes of developers while being fitted ...