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Thanks. My guess was that Java was released only for Sun hardware first, with the public release being more cross-platform. I also just read the link to https:

Thanks. My guess was that Java was released only for Sun hardware first, with the public release being more cross-platform. I also just read the link to https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/https://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/https://wp.netsca... “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript”. Didn’t know that. Funny to read that they positioned it as “complementary to and integrated with Java” and “on the client, the scripts would glue together an assortment of Java applets and HTML form elements”. They also (“Java programs and JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers”) mention running JavaScript server-side.

solardev 3y ago
> Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript That's a fun trip down memory lane... From the article: > "JavaScript is a great way to get cross-platform scriptable access to databases and move the resulting data into Macromedia Shockwave, where it can be rendered, animated and made into live interactive multimedia for the Internet. JavaScript is also a promising core technology for the new multimedia publishing tool that Macromedia is building." - Bud Colligan, President and CEO, Macromedia Heh, either he was thinking REALLY far ahead to HTML5, or maybe at one point JS was supposed to power Flash, instead of ActionScript?