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During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox ...

A new open source tool dubbed Quark promises rapid creation of desktop applications with native capabilities while leveraging web development technologies. Built on top of GitHub’s Electron framework ...

On the desktop, the biggest improvement appears to be an new JavaScript compiler known as IonMonkey, which Moziilla claims will allow web apps and games will run up to 25 percent faster.

Always test your pages using Google’s own tools and third-party resources to view the rendered HTML to make sure all your content is showing up. Google has come a long way with rendering JavaScript.

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 ...