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Java might have been that, if HTML and all the other web tech had never happened and Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, etc. had started out as Java sandboxes.
by Nevermark 5y ago
Java might have been that, if HTML and all the other web tech had never happened and Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, etc. had started out as Java sandboxes.
- nlitened 5y agoIf Java has obviously not outcompeted HTML, one should reflect, in which way HTML is obviously better in things that matter compared to a code sandbox.
- Nevermark 5y agoI am not promoting Java over HTML. But existing and becoming entrenched as a worldwide standard many years in advance is a huge advantage for HTML over Java that isn't relevant to considerations of redesigning the Internet. So that would be a very big reason Java "lost" a major part of the battle it never showed up to. Very difficult bar to replace a platform so pervasive as HTML after the fact.