The current iPhone's relatively poor JavaScript has been a point of lament for users experiencing slow rendering of AJAX pages and a virtual inability to use JavaScript-heavy, Web-based games. With ...

No one expected the iPhone to deliver desktop-class performance with regard to Web-based applications, but JavaScript speed on the iPhone is downright sluggish in most respects — a frustrating fact ...

The announcement that third-party iPhone development wouldn't have a "native" SDK was met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but developers have adapted to developing Web 2.0 applications quite ...

A few speed tests done on the new iPhone 3GS pitting it both against the old iPhone as well as its main rivals. So far, these have either been eyeball tests or page rendering/boot time tests that take ...

Flash has come to the iPhone–or rather, the iPhone has come to Flash–thanks to a clever addition to the Javascript Runtime Environment called Gordon and created by Tobias Schneider. While the addition ...

JavaScript is a big part of most modern websites, but it has its share of cons. Here's how to disable it. Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for ...

Early JavaScript benchmarks from iPhones running a beta of iPhone OS 3.0 suggest the new version will bring big speed gains to web apps running in Mobile Safari, even on existing iPhone hardware. With ...

AnandTech publishes the first SunSpider Javascript benchmarks for the iPhone 5. SunSpider measures Javascript performance which runs in web browsers. Smaller numbers are better, so the final score of ...

Now that you’re finally getting used to iOS 12’s new Shortcuts app, here comes Scriptable, a new automation app that runs JavaScript. It can make powerful and deep connections with your iPhone or iPad ...

Medialets today released the results of JavaScript benchmark tests performed using the SunSpider test suite on the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the T-Mobile G1 running Android, and the Palm Pre running webOS.

If you're packing a little JavaScript-fu but not much Objective-C knowledge, and itching to jump on the App Store bandwagon, NimbleKit may be the answer you're looking for. By providing its own API on ...