[HN Gopher] 1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web
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       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.
        
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