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 ...

Today, Google is launching another initiative that is meant to drive more awareness for the JavaScript processing speed of its browser and the V8 engine it runs on, in the hopes that it will lure ...

Based on the conference and online discussions, we worked to document the project, its organizational and governance structures, and the various ways to contribute. Through these documents, we surface ...

TL;DR: Google is now shipping Chrome 91, which includes a major upgrade to the browser's JavaScript processing. According to Google, the V8 engine used to run about 78 years' worth of JavaScript every ...