> CSS was the modern thing. JS was called DHTML and was used for mouse trailing bouncing balls. Javascript was called Javascript and was used, mostly, for form

> CSS was the modern thing. JS was called DHTML and was used for mouse trailing bouncing balls. Javascript was called Javascript and was used, mostly, for form validation. Dynamic menus, animations... - all of which you couldn't do with CSS alone - were called DHTML. You could even use Javascript in the server. > [...] before that, it was ActiveX and nobody used it. Plenty of people used ActiveX and it was useful, sometimes, although it limited you to IE. But you are forgetting two of the most widely used technologies of the time: Applets and Flash. Fortunately both are out of modern web development. > You did create modern sites with CSS, without JS. You did create sites with CSS, "modern" sites included JS and DHTML. Then, as now, I found that most people complaining about Javascript were really complaining about bad coders and bad implementations; The browser's DOM back then and the mess that is NPM today. The language itself has bad decisions (weak dynamic types) and good features (functional capabilities), exactly like every other language out there.