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JavaScript is named JavaScript because it was intended to "bridge browser and Java applets" if you read all the old press releases, they try to push the Java a
by karel-3d 1y ago
JavaScript is named JavaScript because it was intended to "bridge browser and Java applets"
if you read all the old press releases, they try to push the Java applet connection a lot.
The original plan was to run Java applets everywhere and JavaScript as a "glue". I think we are much better off now than with Java applets. It could have been much, much worse.
- Aldipower 1y agoInitially it was called Mocha or LiveScript and not intended to bridge Java applets. It really was invented to make HTML more dynamic. But eventually Netscape and Sun did a license agreement. Sun owned Java. From this point on, the name JavaScript was born and it was marketed to bridge browser and Java applets.
- karel-3d 1y agoAh, okay then. I gave too much weight to old press releases then. Anyway Java applets (and ActiveX) was expected to be the main thing; write once, run anywhere; and that world would be much much worse than what we got.