For historical context, early IE browsers weren't hardcoded to use JavaScript. We know about VBScript, but really there was a generic framework called Active Sc

For historical context, early IE browsers weren't hardcoded to use JavaScript. We know about VBScript, but really there was a generic framework called Active Scripting that would allow any other language to be plugged in. Python was one of those languages. You could download an ActivePython distribution and start being able to run python in your web page with a <script language="PythonScript"> tag. I'm not sure if this still works in current IE versions. It might.