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patio11 on Nov 11, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are we limited to JS in browsers - would a by...

You could integrate Java applets into the DOM. Now you have two problems. (Keep in mind that back when this was popular IE 4 was busy kicking the pants off of Netscape Navigator. Fancy programming against IE 4?)

rimantas on Nov 11, 2010 [–]

  Fancy programming against IE 4

DHTML was born with IE4 and Netscape 4, and IE4 was fancier of the two.

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