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>And the web was designed with the intent of running code practically from the beginning This is absolute nonsense. In the beginning the web didn't even have i

• krapp 7y ago
  >This is absolute nonsense. In the beginning the web didn't even have inline images. It was a text-only protocol. Maybe you misinterpreted my comment. "practically from the beginning" does not mean the same thing as "from the beginning." I think something that was considered to be a part of the HTML spec, regardless of how it came about, since the 1990s counts as "practically from the beginning." >Cookies and script tags were hacks added by Netscape, IIRC. Tim Berners-Lee didn't seem to have a problem with the premise of embedded scripting in HTML in 1992[0], albeit not with the script tag and JS per se. And my comment was more referring to whether or not executing code in a browser was considered a legitimate use of HTML and the web at the time - and clearly it was, albeit not universally. That paradigm wasn't something Netscape just "hacked" in and entirely forced upon an unwitting web. [0]http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1992/0064.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1992/0064.html