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Interesting piece in there: "Fun historical fact: If you disabled JavaScript in Netscape 4, css would also stop working — because css was applied to the page u
by alexobenauer 14y ago
Interesting piece in there:
"Fun historical fact: If you disabled JavaScript in Netscape 4, css would also stop working — because css was applied to the page using… JavaScript."
- robin_reala 14y agoThat’s because Netscape’s original counter-proposal to CSS for a styling language was called JSSS[1]. When it became obvious that CSS was the way the industry was moving they hurriedly implemented the new CSS API on top of the old JSSS engine, which required JS to run. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets