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So essentially, it was a race between sand-boxing environments like JVM, .NET and browsers? I think there was a big potential for JVM to dominate this sector...
by ducktective 5y ago
So essentially, it was a race between sand-boxing environments like JVM, .NET and browsers? I think there was a big potential for JVM to dominate this sector...
- vbezhenar 5y agoSandbox for JVM was mostly an afterthought IMO. There were lot of vulnerabilities to escape sandbox, much more compared to browsers. But nail in the coffin IMO was Steve Jobs, who decided not to adopt nor Flash, nor JVM in mobile Safari.
- ducktective 5y agoIt's amazing how much our everyday experiences are resulted from decisions of few people or completely random coincidences.
- ncmncm 5y agoThere were earnest early attempts at making Java and .NET the language to run webapps, that all failed. For reasons. So, it wasn't for lack of trying. Javascript won by default, just by being slightly less nasty. Many of us run (selective) Javascript blockers to keep it from being too nasty. They don't always succeed.