That's all b.s. of the ripest kind.

No. I wrote Mocha in C.

Where did you hear this CL fish story?

Oh. It was not you, and not the original.

It was Waldemar Horwat and js2 https://web.archive.org/web/20111217124744/https://mxr.mozil...

I don't know what "semantic HTML enrichment" means, but there wasn't time. The alternative was VBScript and DHTML. DHTML and Netscape's DOM forked Web content based on `if (document.all) /* IE code here */; else /* netscape code here */`, and only with Firefox, Opera, and Safari founding whatwg.org and start HTML5 did we unify everything.

I didn't pick LiveScript, Netscape Marketing did.

The original codename Mocha was Marc Andreessen's.

This is all in the HOPL IV paper and my Lex Fridman interview.

No, == was strict in the ten day prototype.

https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1004425861410402304

https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1922360598995534074

One book covers the DOM and browser APIs, one does not.

It's opt in. The UX can be disabled, and Leo as a whole can be removed via group policy. https://search.brave.com/ask?q=how+to+disable+leo+ux+in+brav...

"Mozilla reluctantly hired" me? False, a foolish lie if you knew better, and if you didn't, why not? Search engines and even censored Wikipedia exist.

I was a founder of Mozilla in 1998 (1997 planning inside Netscape).

JS was ubiquitous when DHTML was pushed by Microsoft, because DHTML required JScript aka JS.

CSS was not there in the '90s because Netscape didn't implement, and MS did its own subset.

JS and CSS both suffered from wildly inconsistent support between Netscape and IE, but JS at root had interop enough to support hotmail, later OddPost, much more. CSS had no extension mechanism based on JS then, so it suffered browser-specific support that was IMHO worse than JS suffered. No way to polyfill.

(There was no DOCTYPE for DHTML. The one for HTML 4.01 was not equivalent to a DOCTYPE for DHTML.)

Does no one use search engines any longer? Or AI chatbots, the new front end to search engines? Anyway, 2014.