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Re:Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) by IMTDb on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:32AM (#36784271)
I don't see the point of this; you can already achieve something quite similar by compiling GNU PITA (Processor of Interactive Text Activity) with J.P. Blacker patch on top of it, which is publicly available on his FTP server.

Then to get interactive content; you just pipe the content of each page to the pita daemon using UNIX sockets and write the output to a file descriptor in the /dev/screen directory (just compile and mount the "interactive-wp" filesystem on /dev/screen first, of course).

The only gotcha is to ensure compatibility between these components, but someone shared a compatibility matrix on IRC a while ago, Sio it's common knowledge at this point.

Really these companies "innovations" are a joke.

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