On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:10:36 -0000 (UTC)
Poprocks  wrote:

> Indeed.  In a way --- although it seems to have happened historically by
> accident --- I think the original idea starting with Netscape Navigator
> (2.x I believe, but certainly by 3.0) to have JavaScript do some
> light-duty client-side capabilities,

 JavaScript was in Netscape 2.0 along with file upload and a nasty
nasty security bug - you could use JavaScript to populate a hidden file
upload field and snarf any file from the user's machine. In Netscape 2.1
JavaScript could no longer populate a file upload field.

 I used JavaScript and file upload (but not the bug) to produce a
*very* early (1995/6) internal web application for Motorola (using Netscape
2.0 originally). So early that I was part way through development when I
inverted my perspective and thought of it as an application instead of a
set of dynamic web pages. What they wanted was a wiki but those were quite
some time in the future and beyond my imagination - what they got was a
document repository and discussion service (INN with a web front end and a
funky authentication system).

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