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> IMO, it accomplishes this not as much by being good, as by being a parasite that infects web browsers. My memory is a bit foggy, but I recall Microsoft throw
by maratd 15y ago
> IMO, it accomplishes this not as much by being good, as by being a parasite that infects web browsers.
My memory is a bit foggy, but I recall Microsoft throwing a bunch of things at the browser in the beginning. You can specify the language in the script tag. VBScript anyone?
It wasn't like JavaScript didn't have competition ... it just won a very long time ago.
- Someone 15y agoIn my memory, JavaScript won because it had market penetration, it did not get market penetration because it won. It had market penetration because it was included with Netscape Navigator. Yes, it also was good enough at that time, but almost anything would have been, in a time where a ten-line script was huge. I do not think that it would have won against say VBScript if the latter would have been available on the same set of browsers.
- chc 15y agoMicrosoft threw one other language into Internet Explorer, and as far as I can recall didn't push it any harder than JavaScript. No other scripting language was ever implemented in any other browser. To call VBScript a competitor is being overly generous. JavaScript was really the only option for DHTML.