On: Why are we limited to JS in browsers - would a bytecode standard help?

[rlpb]

From the first hit: "Java applets may need to perform Java to JavaScript communication to access the Document Object Model (DOM)..."

So it seems that it is hardly an alternative.

> ...or is every link on the first SERP wrong in some way?

What I don't expect to find quickly is exactly how long this has been possible in which browsers since when. Was it possible back in the days of IE4 and Netscape 4 or 4.5 or whatever it was?

[narag → rlpb]

IIRC, possible in Netscape 4.0x, but not easy or pretty.

[_b8r0 → narag]

Nothing was easy or pretty with Netscape 4. Zarro boogs found my arse!

[rimantas → _b8r0]

if (document.layers) still haunts me.