HTML5 coupled with a Mobile UI widget library such as jQuery Mobile provides a cross-device way to create mobile specific user interfaces with JavaScript.

JavaScript is the second-largest contributor to page weight, behind images, which means it can play a major role in slowing down the speed of your mobile site. Here's how you can reduce your reliance ...

“Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs” is a new book by Phil Dutson that introduces web developers to building mobile web apps with JQuery Mobile. The book is divided into 24 separate ...

It's a super-tiny, 3k-compressed mobile JavaScript library akin to jQuery and designed for simple DOM manipulation and traversal. It also includes Ajax and Effects via Emile.js.

This past Thursday, January 27, 2011 a grassroots style event took place at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. A “Free Day of Javascipt on Mobile” attracted some of the best mobile web ...

Javascript is a very popular scripting language used in almost all web applications. Due to the fast technological growth, you can now download and run Javascript code right on your mobile device, ...

New cross-platform mobile app development tools, which use JavaScript, can be more effective than hybrid mobile app development tools and native approaches in making sure apps perform well on multiple ...

Facebook is open-sourcing Hermes, a JavaScript engine that focuses on React Native apps and is optimized for mobile apps. The company explained it noticed the JavaScript engine was a significant ...

A recent essay written by iOS developer Drew Crawford entitled “ Why mobile apps are slow ” goes to great lengths to illustrate the speed differences between “native” code and JavaScript ...

And mobile operating systems have very poor support for Python interpreters. JavaScript, on the other hand, is natively supported by all modern mobile and desktop browsers.