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> It was not uncommon then too to say javascript developers were only in to write malwares and javascript should be avoided as much as possible. What would the
by 4ad 11y ago
> It was not uncommon then too to say javascript developers were only in to write malwares and javascript should be avoided as much as possible. What would the web look like today if we listened to them?
A much better place.
- krapp 11y agoNothing was ever going to prevent webpages from becoming more than a slightly uglier imitation of rich text. Without one unavoidably ubiquitous scripting language, (which, if it hadn't been javascript, would have been vbscript through Microsoft's sheer force of will) you still would have been left with proprietary embeds like flash, java applets and inevitably browser plugins, but probably written entirely in C or C++.