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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.

http://www.herongyang.com/VBScript/IE-Browser-DOM-API-Docume...

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

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24032&seqNum...

EDIT: I forgot about JScript vs JavaScript vs ECMAScript.

https://johnresig.com/blog/versions-of-javascript/

However much of this isn't relevant today.

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