Re:JavaScript quiz that may confuse you
by hnlmorg on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:18PM
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> JS appeared in Dec 95 and the first ECMA spec came in June 97, so that's a pretty narrow window.
In theory yes, in practice not really. IE4 was the first version of JScript to be based on ECMA and that was released at the end of 1997. But in that era people didn't update regularly. Sure some folk (myself included) installed IE4 on top of Windows 95 SE[1]. But a lot of people wouldn't have had access to IE4 until they bought a new PC with Windows 98 pre-installed. So there was a good few years in practice.
Also worth noting that the web changed so much between 95 and 98. It might have only been three years in real terms but it felt like a lifetime in terms of technical revolutions.
In theory yes, in practice not really. IE4 was the first version of JScript to be based on ECMA and that was released at the end of 1997. But in that era people didn't update regularly. Sure some folk (myself included) installed IE4 on top of Windows 95 SE[1]. But a lot of people wouldn't have had access to IE4 until they bought a new PC with Windows 98 pre-installed. So there was a good few years in practice.
Also worth noting that the web changed so much between 95 and 98. It might have only been three years in real terms but it felt like a lifetime in terms of technical revolutions.
[1] If I recall correctly, I had IE4 because it came on a .Net Magazine cover CD (not to be confused with Microsoft .NET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(magazine) )