Microsoft introduced VBScript support in Internet Explorer. VBScript was a variant of Visual Basic and therefore a lot more familiar than JavaScript. VB was alr

Microsoft introduced VBScript support in Internet Explorer. VBScript was a variant of Visual Basic and therefore a lot more familiar than JavaScript. VB was already used in MS Office and a whole generation had learned programming starting with BASIC. But it didn't matter. Nobody would use a language which wasn't supported by the browser with the largest market share, regardless of the merits of the language.