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by Mahn 4164 days ago
Funny, I'd put that in the exact opposite order. Back in the day there were taskbars, popups, visitor counters and what have you, JS was mostly an annoying gimmick. Today it's about actual site functionality, it's pretty fast and (generally) sandboxed.
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Derp, phrasing. I meant exactly that. :P

"...JavaScript itself to be a silly extension" "lol no"