Answer by @BrendanEich to Why did people at Netscape feel the need of a new language like JavaScript for the web? http://qr.ae/x0Bha
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@BrendanEich@wrumsby I remember when there were several, incl a TCL plugin, a Perl attempt... Java applets... ;-)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrendanEich@wrumsby Mostly NPAPI plugins, IIRC. Think there was a TCL ActiveX, but IE was fairly nascent, then (Rather liked TCL for it)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mexisme Yeah, we never added alt-script-engine NPAPI support in Netscape. A ton of work. Mozilla did Python thx to@skippyhammond.@wrumsby2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@mexisme But only ActiveState used the <script type=".../python"> support, so we (@bz_moz) ripped it out eventually.@skippyhammond@wrumsby1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@BrendanEich @mexisme @skippyhammond @wrumsby Yeah. Adding something like this today would be exciting; e.g. see the APIs returning Promise
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