What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (2017)

Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by tasogare on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:54AM (#22411558)

That's nitpicking. Javascript was the only language that could be used to manipulate DOM so it's normal to conflate the two.

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Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by uk_programmer on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @05:53AM (#22412214)

Well to nitpick your nitpick. Internet Explorer did allow you to use vbscript to manipulate the DOM.

Also you can use XSLT to create a new DOM tree in a browser from an XML document.

EDIT: I forgot about JScript vs JavaScript vs ECMAScript.

However much of this isn't relevant today.

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