Subj : Re: Microsoft
To   : Tracker1
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Apr 02 2023 07:21 am

-=> Tracker1 wrote to hollowone <=-

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

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

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

This is bringing up bad memories of HotJava, the java browser for
Solaris.




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