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- ▶ 13:30 David Rosenthal And so he's playing around with JavaScript and what he can do with JavaScript to make this application, this web application of email better.
- ▶ 13:38 David Rosenthal The history of JavaScript is fascinating.
- ▶ 13:46 David Rosenthal The idea behind JavaScript was to include a programming language as part of web browsers so that people could make dynamic web pages instead of just static HTML documents.
- ▶ 13:57 David Rosenthal The problem was it was kind of this casualty of the browser wars with Microsoft and Internet Explorer and everything that killed Netscape, and so up until this time, kind of, 2001, JavaScript existed, but, like, it wasn't super popular.
- ▶ 14:57 David Rosenthal And so Paul's like, maybe I can use JavaScript to make this better.
- ▶ 14:59 David Rosenthal He's working on it, and he discovers a little known feature of JavaScript called the XML HTTP request, which lets a web page fetch
- ▶ 21:38 David Rosenthal There wasn't a lot of depth of knowledge out there about JavaScript.