JavaScript started out as a simple extension for the browser but has become so much more. In part this is true on building on rich concepts going back to Lisp. Along the way it has challenged the givens of programming and given us a high-performance flexi... (more…)

Without too much fanfares Sciter has officially transitioned from TIScript to JavaScript this week. (more…)

In fact, this isn't about JavaScript, but that's the context I've discussed it in. I encourage you to think about it in more programming languages. (are there languages in which this can't be done?)... (more…)

JavaScript is synchronous, meaning that it will execute your code block by order (after hoisting*) unless you need to use a timer or… (more…)

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet – William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet The subject of Prototypes in Javascript has always been confusing for developers. In this post I w… (more…)