Is there a native machine code compiler for JavaScript? I'm not talking about a VM. If it doesn't exist can it be done? I am wondering if it can be compiled to binary due to the dynamic nature of the language....

I thought this would be as easy as:  if(typeof(Array.push) == 'undefined'){   //not defined, prototype a version of the push method   // Firefox never gets here, but IE/Safari/Chrome/etc. do, even though   // the Array object has a push metho...

I've been playing for a while with phonegap, did some tests on my Android...  It's pretty nice.  My questions are: What is the best (your favorite) framework to develop native mobile applications with web client side (HTML / JavaScript / CSS)...

I measured the execution times of those two functions:   jQuery grep function Native JavaScript filter function   The execution of following methods have been measured using Chrome Profiles tool:  // jQuery GREP function function alternative1(words,...

I stumbled upon a function called v8Locale in Chrome's Developer Console. I was curious so I entered the function to get the source code, and it revealed the following code:  function (a){ native function NativeJSLocale(); var b=NativeJSLocale(a)...

I want to use either native JavaScript or jQuery to change the poster attribute on the HTML video tag. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  <div id="videoplayer" class="video-player" style="overflow: hidden; width: 582px; he...

I am making a game in HTML5. I am most familiar with HTML5, and prefer it over a higher level language, such as C++. HTML5 is a great platform for writing games on. My only issue is that I want to run my game as a native application (that you can st...

I was developing a small JS library and was to use there custom Error exceptions.  So, I decided to inherit them (ORLY?) from native Javascript Error object in this way:  var MyError = function(){     Error.prototype.constructor.apply(this, arguments...

i try to get my native android plugin on phonegap / cordova 3.0.0 running but i does not work,   the error from ripple:     Uncaught ReferenceError: torch is not defined  the call from the index.html   <button onclick="torch.shine(200);"&g...

creating an application in react-native running into this problem. basically I should create a page that prints the data of the user currently logged in to the database (firebase). I managed to create a sort of leaderboard that prints all users with...