> The browser provided an easy-to-program source of cool toys. If it had been harder to program. It was harder to program though. The amount of gotchas in Java

> The browser provided an easy-to-program source of cool toys. If it had been harder to program. It was harder to program though. The amount of gotchas in JavaScript are so high compared to many other popular mainstream programming languages of even that era, and not to mention hou could only use it in a browser, which was severely lacking in functionality compared to native APIs. So the hackers who wanted cool toys already had far better options, which goes to show even if js was much worse it couldn't have done badly. Although there is not much data that I am aware of about the early websites making cool things with javascript, if we take iOS and Objective C, it wasn't cool hackers filling the app stores with cool toys, but real businesses looking to make money. Hell, even Mosiac and Netscape didn't want to be cool toys, theh wanted to be real businesses making lots of money.