[nanis]

> I am a simple sole, ... go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb. You know HTML for the layout and CSS for the style.

I am not sure if this is intended as humor, but JavaScript came before CSS.

[culi]

And "HTML for structure, CSS for style" is a philosophy that developed later. As is evidenced by early HTML tags like <small>, <center>, <b>, <i>, etc

[stavros]

I remember when CSS Zen garden was showcasing what you can do with CSS, and browsers (well, "browser", singular, as there was basically only IE 6 back then) supported Javascript and VBScript.

[austin-cheney]

Back in 2008 we had a team building exercise to create a Zen Garden sample. Here was mine: https://prettydiff.com/zen/

In those days the three content columns vertically aligned to the same height cross-browser.

[SoftTalker]

And it's soul, not sole. Unless the author is also a fish.

[librasteve]

sorry - maybe we need AI smell checkers

[itohihiyt]

Haha

[librasteve]

I'm noted for my dry wit

[philsnow]

I read that as "sole [proprietor]"

[austin-cheney]

It seems JavaScript was first released, just internally, in May 1995 in a pre-alpha version of Netscape 2.0. It would not be publicly announced until December 1995. Netscape 2.0 didn't even come out until March 1996 and even then it was language version 1.0 which was extremely defective. The first version of the language that actually worked was JavaScript 1.1 that came out in August 1996. CSS on the other hand first premiered with IE3 that came out in August 1996.

* https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/msie/

* https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1995-the-birth-of-javascri...

The distinction either way is trivial, because at that time nobody was using either CSS or JavaScript as they required proprietary APIs. There was no DOM specification at that time.

[librasteve]

yikes, I stand corrected...

JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in just 10 days in May 1995 while he was working at Netscape Communications Corporation

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) was introduced later than JavaScript. The first CSS specification was published in December 1996 by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos.

apologies

[agumonkey]

Hmm apparently it also came before DSSSL. Surprising.