Re:HTML is the Web
by titanix88 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:34AM
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It's kind of funny to think about how web was supposed to be extensible with 'type' attribute for script and style tags,but everyone forgot to implement anything other than 'text/css' and 'application/javascript'. Why did it happen?
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VBScript and Dart were a thing, but they were vendor-specific. Netscape had Javascript Style Sheets in the 90s, where you get the full power of a PL for styling. Then you had Java and Flash through plugins, but they weren't first class citizens with the DOM. However, Sun and Netscape did originally intend Java to be embedded in Netscape alongside JS, but it didn't happen, so Java went the plugin route.
People have tried, but getting the rest of the world to agree is the hard part.