[ikari_pl]

It's hard to compare these, it's like comparing a shovel to an excavator.

If a browser had to be implemented in 16 KB of binary, and use at most 48kB of RAM when running, many of the APIs you enjoy having would not be there. And it's not even about features of the language itself.

There was a time when you could have both - the language and the functionalities of a browser - IE supported VBScript in script tags:

    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
    <!--
    Sub Button1_OnClick
       MsgBox "Hello world"
    End Sub
    -->
    </SCRIPT>