Subj : Re: Microsoft
To   : Tracker1
From : hollowone
Date : Sun Apr 02 2023 01:11 pm

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

I knew the bell wasn't ringing far from truth. Thanks for pointing me to the right waters. I'd not mistake java with javascript, perhaps my memory resonated with the wrong echo from the beginning.

I know XUL, it was pitched by Mozilla years after NN collapsed as something that may help Javascript conquer desktop app development. It never resonated though.

But that makes sense to me, if XUL predecessor as Wikipedia claims developed initially by Netscape Communications in around 1997 was responsible for NN6 rendering and I experienced it around 1999/2000 with my Celeron 300Mhz, no brainer it was slow as hell.

Now I even found right reference regarding this XUL thing to impact performance on slower machine at the time of NN6 release.

Mystery solved.

-h1

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