If I put myself back there in the mid 90s, I actually don't think Netscape paid it (OO semantics & standards) much heed because the purpose of the language at t

If I put myself back there in the mid 90s, I actually don't think Netscape paid it (OO semantics & standards) much heed because the purpose of the language at the time really was just to add some minor scripting behaviour / actions to pages, not to build out applications. Actual "serious" uses of JS didn't really ramp up until the end of the decade, and by then people were doing what you're saying, yes. Netscape releasing a style guide with the language, and a set of standard libraries that used them, that would have helped. But everyone back then was too distracted with "Java is the Future of the Browser" (Narrator: It Wasn't)