It's safe to guess that if Netscape had won in the 90s, JS and the browser would have progressed much farther in the 2000s. Microsoft was in it to stop the brow

It's safe to guess that if Netscape had won in the 90s, JS and the browser would have progressed much farther in the 2000s. Microsoft was in it to stop the browser being used as a platform that threatened their monopoly. Once everyone was using IE, they had little incentive need to improve it.