Brandon Eich said he thought he was hired to put Scheme in the Netscape browser, but management wasn't interested. Meanwhile Sun wanted Netscape to put Java in

Brandon Eich said he thought he was hired to put Scheme in the Netscape browser, but management wasn't interested. Meanwhile Sun wanted Netscape to put Java in the browser, but Netscape wanted their own scripting language, so they worked out a compromise, with Eich creating Javascript (I think he may have worked with one of Sun's developers for JS 1.0). Eich did a podcast on the history of JS a couple years ago. If memory serves correct, he said that Netscape did try to put Java in the browser alongside JS and canvas for both to target, but only JS met the deadline. Netscape was pretty ambitious back in the day. They did have server-side JS and JS stylesheets. I wonder how far they would have gotten had MS not decided to get in the browser game. I don't know about the Smalltalk angle, but that would be very interesting to hear about.