Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
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Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#2Think of how the web would be different if Microsoft leaned its monopoly power on XMLHttpRequest. Would it have been the test case for API ownership instead of Java?
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#3Remainder of how hard is realizing you're witnessing history.
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#4I recall being at a local (Detroit) IT seminar around the time Javascript was announced, and some guy from Sun with an English accent going on and on about how safe javascript would be, since it couldn't access local resources and they had purposefully left out a lot of functions that could compromise the user. It's changed a bit since then, I'd say.
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#5Nothing technically wrong with Java and JS of course, but this terrible PR piece which desperately tries to pitch Java as an integral part of the web, going even as far as naming an innocent scripting language for web browsers JAVAscript truly demonstrates that the mid-to-end-90's were the dark age of computing (at least the corporate side).
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#68 months later, Microsoft would release VBScript.
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#7I wish Matz had been there with Rubyscript. JS wasn’t as powerful back then; it took over a decade for it to evolve enough where people would really use it for much other than client-side validation and neat UI tricks. In comparison, Ruby was a great language to use, and it would’ve grown more quickly.
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#88 months later, Microsoft would release VBScript.
Which became dominant for a while, but cgi scripts on the server-side were also hot.
Enter Perl and PhP server-side.
Then there was JSP, ASP, and ColdFusion, all server-side.
Rails! Also server-side.
Then back to JS.
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#9Wow, 25 years. Feels like yesterday, but several technological revolutions happened in these years.
Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
#10Nothing technically wrong with Java and JS of course, but this terrible PR piece which desperately tries to pitch Java as an integral part of the web, going even as far as naming an innocent scripting language for web browsers JAVA script truly demonstrates that the mid-to-end-90's were the dark age of computing (at least the corporate side).
webASSEMBLY is not much better name.