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Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li... by TheZenPsycho on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:17PM (#6729060)
that is a weird and complicated take.

microsoft had visual basic in the browser, working like php works. that was microsoft's vision, which would have been the web if netscape didn't still have significant market share. IE had to implement javascript to be compatible with pages written for netscape.

simple as that. just microsoft's famous "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy at work.

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Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li... by jlgreco on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @08:13PM (#6729884)
Microsoft's famous "embrace/extend/extinguish" is why they would have followed Netscape in implementing even a scheme-like javascript. They wouldn't have skipped the first two E's just because it was scheme-like instead of java-ish.
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Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li... by TheZenPsycho on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @08:26PM (#6729930)
No, but perhaps there would not have been any pages written for netscape for IE to be compatible with.
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