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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by tjansen on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:52AM (#25302195)
I assume you have never used VBScript, which was the major alternative back then.
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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by toyg on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:12AM (#25302364)
VBScript is actually a later development, in reaction to JS (or "DHTML", as we called it back then). But yeah, it was pretty bad too.
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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by icedchai on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:37AM (#25302632)
Not by much. VBScript was available with Internet Explorer 3.0, which was released in 1996. It was only a little later than early JS.
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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by bdcravens on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:06PM (#25304803)
I worked at a computer store/ISP - the owner was a VB guy, and coded up some stuff on our intranet in it. I recall his shock that it didn't work in Netscape.
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