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Don't trust Wikipedia. I've used the "glue language" phrase myself, but when I did Mocha in May 1995 for Netscape 2, it was to make an HTML-embedded scripting language that could b…

Were you? I have no idea who you are, but the only "other C-level position" was an unspecified throwaway line from Reid Hoffman, who didn't have authority to create any such "Chief…

I was a real founder (not retconned fake founder). My contributions were almost entirely before taking the CEO job, of course. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544226 "Lots o…

That was when I thought the attribute was added only when the user searched, but it was added even to a FQDN which should not have been done. We didn't make anything from this bug,…

Who "he"? I :set et (expand tabs) in vim :-P.

https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1981097992477364231 There's no need for a "Sorry". On the other hand, Brave dying on the wrong hill does not help anyone. This isn't a "wreck other…

A mundane reason for why donations to the 501c3 parent Mozilla Foundation can't go to Firefox or Gecko engineers is U.S. tax law. We found out the hard way after the IRS San Jose o…

Rewards has always been opt in, so you don't need to get past it to use Brave. We would not be here without it, but use Chrome or Firefox if you prefer. IMHO "really gross" applies…

> ... things like "Come home, white man" and other dog-whistles on image-boards Wow, that's a new lie. Do you have any evidence? This isn't something Brave ever did, but it's easy …

We never, as in not ever, offered crypto mining in the browser.

The grants came from our token fund, not users' tokens (no way to buy BAT then). The issue which I found out about late, and fixed right away, was infringing on right to publicity,…

That blog post is about a partnership (which ended), but you probably saw some sponsored images at the time, in new tab pages (1 of 4 then, I think; the rest are just art images). …

That's all b.s. of the ripest kind.

No. I wrote Mocha in C. Where did you hear this CL fish story?

I don't know what "semantic HTML enrichment" means, but there wasn't time. The alternative was VBScript and DHTML. DHTML and Netscape's DOM forked Web content based on `if (documen…

I didn't pick LiveScript, Netscape Marketing did. The original codename Mocha was Marc Andreessen's. This is all in the HOPL IV paper and my Lex Fridman interview.

No, == was strict in the ten day prototype. https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1004425861410402304 https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1922360598995534074

One book covers the DOM and browser APIs, one does not.

It's opt in. The UX can be disabled, and Leo as a whole can be removed via group policy. https://search.brave.com/ask?q=how+to+disable+leo+ux+in+brav...

"Mozilla reluctantly hired" me? False, a foolish lie if you knew better, and if you didn't, why not? Search engines and even censored Wikipedia exist. I was a founder of Mozilla in…

(There was no DOCTYPE for DHTML. The one for HTML 4.01 was not equivalent to a DOCTYPE for DHTML.)

JS was ubiquitous when DHTML was pushed by Microsoft, because DHTML required JScript aka JS. CSS was not there in the '90s because Netscape didn't implement, and MS did its own sub…

Does no one use search engines any longer? Or AI chatbots, the new front end to search engines? Anyway, 2014.

If you insist on percentage points not ratios, then how do you apportion blame to me vs the CEOs before me? I was CEO for ten days. I stood up for it to avoid Mozilla going headles…

From the statcounter links I gave: >>> (31.82-14.34)x100/31.82 54 >>> (14.34-2.37)x100/14.35 83 54% drop from peak to when I left, 83% drop after. No one said "didn't happen".