Ah yes- I remember the predecessor to this was VRML, which started out as mostly-static and then gained a number of scriptability nodes. at the time, it was st

Ah yes- I remember the predecessor to this was VRML, which started out as mostly-static and then gained a number of scriptability nodes. at the time, it was still unclear how interactive, graphical web applications would be made, and it seemed like markup languages could gain scriptability (https://www.bitmanagement.de/developer/spec/vrmlscript/vrmlscript.html https://www.bitmanagement.de/developer/spec/vrmlscript/vrmls... so around 1996!) SVG is a wonderful standard but it seemed pretty clear that all the scripting should be done in javascript, with SVG as an web element tag or document type.