If a web app doesn’t use the browser, how can you test it? Microsoft’s Edge Dev Tools brings the familiar F12 tools to the desktop Press F12 in most web browsers and you’ll see a set of debugging ...

Mozilla and Google have updated their browsers with features to help developers more effectively write and debug their websites. With Tuesday’s release of Firefox 23, Mozilla has introduced a number ...

JavaScript has the capacity to break a whole lot of different things on a website for both users and search engines. Thus, many SEO professionals and digital marketers are distrustful of JavaScript as ...

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from ...

The error messages that are displayed when a script malfunctions range from effective to practically useless — especially when the scripts themselves are long ...

Google reported on their Webmaster Central Blog today that they will be launching a new tool in the next few days to help users better understand how Google renders their JavaScript-coded website.

During the past year or two, Web developers have witnessed what we might call the JavaScript renaissance. That's because all the fancy Ajax, Web 2.0, mashup, interactive, collaborative, desktop-like ...

Since JavaScript is designed to expose the code itself to the user, it is obfuscated for reverse engineering measures or equipped with an anti-debugger. A simple and effective countermeasure against ...