The Web introduced the idea of the DOM[1] and Javascript was created to embrace it and extend it making it programable, while Java applets and Flash didn't resp

The Web introduced the idea of the DOM[1] and Javascript was created to embrace it and extend it making it programable, while Java applets and Flash didn't respect the idea of The Web and didn't embrace the DOM at all, so maybe a false dichotomy was created were either more robust programming languages had to have the full control of the browser skipping The Web (too limiting?) and in the other hand for just operating the DOM Javascript was enough. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Ob...