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then 1 year later MS brought IE 3.0 with "JScript" to "embrace, extend and extinguish" JavaScript

it was a real pita debugging JScript compatibility issues before the days of jQuery.

i guess we did get XMLHttpRequest later in IE 5.0. strange how things turned out.

That and the DOM. We dump on it today, but compared to Netscape's <layer> tags, it was mana from Heaven.

IE 4's early stabs at CSS were also already superior to the existing:

    <font face="arial" color="red" size="8">

The web back then was wild in all senses of the term.

I don't know, that looks a lot like Tailwind to me.

So you're saying we've regressed then? ;-)