Timeline for How did JavaScript become popular?
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 21:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 9, 2013 at 18:12 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 8, 2013 at 18:24 | answer | added | Erik Reppen | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 16:52 | comment | added | Erik Reppen | Ajax is important but is overcredited, IMO. Widespread browser semi-compliance with the DOM API and CSS2 are what helped make JS a powerful tool on the client-side. That started more around 2002ish IIRC. Once we had proper tools for mucking with the HTML, rapid implementation of complex UI features was a whole new ballgame. It may not have been until around 2005 that everybody started to really take notice, however. I'd also say it wasn't until around 2005ish that a critical mass was beginning to understand that JS is actually a pretty badass general language in its own right. | |
| Jul 10, 2012 at 1:03 | comment | added | Darren Cook | @ToddMoses I went to argue, but some research showed you are right: AJAX made Javascript mainstream again, inspired by Gmail (2004) and google maps (2005). However (and this also relates to the above question) javascript never really went away: Actionscript (used in Flash) appeared from about 2000 and is basically the same language. During the Browser War Years, Flash/Actionscript was being used for the same things that Javascript/AJAX is the go-to-technology for now. I took my Javascript skills to Actionscript in 2000, and brought them back to Javascript in 2008 :-) | |
| Sep 16, 2011 at 13:36 | comment | added | Todd Moses | JavaScript was about dead (+- 2005) until Google resurrected it with Google maps. | |
| Sep 16, 2011 at 9:51 | answer | added | shabunc | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 17:49 | vote | accept | Mathnerd314 | ||
| Dec 22, 2010 at 5:33 | answer | added | Yevgeniy Brikman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 5:04 | answer | added | Grant Palin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 5:01 | answer | added | chrisaycock | timeline score: 32 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:46 | answer | added | Hoàng Long | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:17 | vote | accept | Mathnerd314 | ||
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| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:16 | answer | added | Kamil Szot | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:54 | history | edited | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:53 | answer | added | Simon | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:46 | answer | added | snmcdonald | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:28 | answer | added | John Alexiou | timeline score: -4 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:26 | answer | added | Dean Harding | timeline score: 39 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:24 | answer | added | Ben Hughes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:17 | history | asked | Mathnerd314 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |