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		mhd on March 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-se... It's not PostScript instead of JavaScript. It's PostScript instead of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. That's (IMHO) the more important point. One programming language to write and structure everything instead of a bastardized SGML plus a bastardized Java plus an ad-hoc config add-on. I'd much rather have (a slightly saner) JS for everything than PostScript plus HTML plus CSS, if I would have to choose.

ptx on March 1, 2020 [–]

Netscape 4 actually had JavaScript-based stylesheets, before everyone settled on the CSS standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets

mhd on March 2, 2020 | [–]

Neat, I wasn't aware of that. Ah, the things that could've been.

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