InfoWorld

Microsoft pushes optional type annotations for JavaScript

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Proposes Big JavaScript Change: 'We Do Expect Skepticism'

This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a ...
InfoWorld

New compiler tackles JavaScript’s weak typing

Software vendor Onux tackles the issue of type safety in JavaScript with a language called JS++, or JavaScript++, which checks types at compile time as opposed to runtime. The Onux JS++ compiler ...
Macworld

Javascript Print Button and an Older OS

Readers of my November 2004 Mac 911 column, who steadfastly cling to versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.3, have discovered that typing javascript:window.print() into Safari’s Address field and pressing ...