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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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