[HN Gopher] 1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web ___________________________________________________________________ 1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web Author : codetrotter Score : 48 points Date : 2021-08-16 11:36 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (webdevelopmenthistory.com) (TXT) w3m dump (webdevelopmenthistory.com) | warning26 wrote: | Really interesting read! | | I had no idea Netscape released a Javascript-based Visual Basic | clone. | don-code wrote: | My understanding is that this and many other codebases that Sun | acquired (Forte/4GL, for instance) ultimately ended up merged | into what is today NetBeans - itself a Sun acquisition. | Osiris wrote: | ActiveX was one of the primary reasons that so many enterprise | web based apps couldn't be used other browsers. Enterprises were | all Microsoft and ActiveX was used to do things like get to the | user's active directory profile. | | So while Internet Explorer was getting passed, corporate users | were stuck on websites that required a proprietary plugin to use. | Zelphyr wrote: | This was still a problem at a company I worked at four years | ago. Our customers were large corporations that had | standardized on Internet Explorer over a decade prior and were | unwilling to change anything because they had built so much on | that platform. Some didn't even care that Microsoft had end-of- | life'd it. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-17 23:00 UTC)