Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
by toyg on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:04AM
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JS was definitely faster, but it wasn't really used it in a modern sense anyway - just simple animations.
MS definitely had a lot to do with Java applets failing though; after SUN fought to avoid being embraced/extinguished by VisualJ++, MS just pushed their own ActiveX tech to do the same thing, which was inevitably more performant (because it was based on COM+ and other Windows-specific innards).
MS definitely had a lot to do with Java applets failing though; after SUN fought to avoid being embraced/extinguished by VisualJ++, MS just pushed their own ActiveX tech to do the same thing, which was inevitably more performant (because it was based on COM+ and other Windows-specific innards).