Subj : Re: Microsoft
To   : hollowone
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Apr 02 2023 09:48 am

 Re: Re: Microsoft
 By: hollowone to Tracker1 on Tue Mar 21 2023 03:52:00

ho> But I believe NN fucked up implementation and choosing Java as
ho> front-end was way premature by the end of 90s.

To be clear, Java isn't JavaScript.  The JS UI was started with NN6 using an XML UI templating language called XUL.  Riff on Ghostbusters, "There is no data. There is only XUL!"

XUL itself had a lot of really cool features, and by 2002 most PCs were more than fast enough.  There was a standalone Application toolkit called XULRunner and quite few third party apps used it... Mozilla kind of left it to die though, and eventually nuked XUL support and left it to die.  It was pretty much Electron a decade and a half before Electron existed.

They also added JS support for E4X (ecmascript for xml), the only other implementation was in ActionScript 3 for Flash/Flex.


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