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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by newyorker2 »

> JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications.

>JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers, with JavaScript scripts used to modify the properties and behavior of Java objects, so the range of live online applications that dynamically present information to and interact with users over enterprise networks or the Internet is virtually unlimited.

JS has come a long way in 25 years :-)

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by flohofwoe »

pmarin wrote: post #10
flohofwoe wrote: post #5

Nothing 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).

web ASSEMBLY is not much better name.

Haha indeed, it could be worse though: JavaAssembly ;)

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by Dangeranger »

flohofwoe wrote: post #5

Nothing 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).

My preference is still for something akin to the original LiveScript or HyperScript.

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by vesinisa »

mseepgood wrote: post #13

> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.

It wasn't. They basically predicted Node.js 15 years before its inception.

EDIT: Okay, server-side JS indeed long predates Node.js. See below.

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by Dangeranger »

brk wrote: post #4

I 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.

Being limited but safe may be the reason that JavaScript has won out over Java. As I recall, applets turned out to be a security nightmare.

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by rbg246 »

mseepgood wrote: post #13

> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly I didn't know that server-side JS was a thing back then.

Think it was this (I am sure someone here will know better):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)

Albeit it was two years after the announcement.

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