The defining characteristic of a really good programmer is laziness. That doesn’t mean stupid or ignorant, though. The really good lazy programmer doesn’t write (then need to debug and test) 100 lines ...

The team behind the Dojo Toolkit JavaScript framework has released Dojo 7, marking the 16th year of the venerable toolkit's existence. Dojo 7 targets developers building modern web apps using ...

Ubiquitous jQuery has been outmoded by JavaScript and browser advances. These jQuery-like alternatives pick up where jQuery left off Simplifying tasks such as HTML document traversal, animation, and ...

Need to reformat data for use in another application? Plot it on a map? Use it for an interactive Web graphic? These open-source JavaScript libraries can help turn your data into a suitable format for ...

Data binding is one of the best features of XAML, so it's no surprise that this functionality has become more popular in HTML5. Several great JavaScript libraries help bring common and often-used ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...