> It took David Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts for people to begin taking it seriously. You're

> It took David Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts for people to begin taking it seriously. You're giving developer.mozilla.org (and the existence proof that is/was Firefox and other Mozilla toolkit applications) short shrift. The wider world began taking JS even more seriously when the iPhone launched with the imprimatur that Safari was its SDK (even if that detail was eventually reversed and largely forgotten). Also: thought of as a toy language, sure, but being considered one that "wasn't even as good as VBScript" is highly exaggerated.