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Re:Google Dart target: Chrome soon, other browsers someday by coldtea on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @02:57PM (#6923497)
>Microsoft tried this with ActiveX. Deja-vu, all over again.

And Netscape (Mozilla's grandaddy) tried it with Javascript.

You know, the then proprietary to their browser technology that we now use as a standard. What "works best in X" can eventually be an adopted standard given time.

That said, your analogy is also flawed in another way. Active X was faulty technologically (insecure), proprietary and closed source.

Dart is better than JS architecturally, is open source, AND is passing through a standards body for standardization.

So no relation to Active X at all.

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Re:Google Dart target: Chrome soon, other browsers someday by Touche on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @08:13AM (#6927300)
> And Netscape (Mozilla's grandaddy) tried it with Javascript.

> You know, the then proprietary to their browser technology that we now use as a standard. What "works best in X" can eventually be an adopted standard given time.

While true, everyone agrees that was the wrong way to go and suggesting that we repeat that mistake is... a mistake.

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