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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Lex Fridman Podcast
JavaScript - What Was the Challenge?
I had to hide it from old browsers, including Netscape 1.1,. So I used an HTML comment but inside the container, that comment lived in the script tag. We couldn't have bootstrapped JavaScript without it. The only scripts in Netscape 2 were in line in the document. It was this two-way comment hiding hack which was absolutely necessary for us to get out the ground.
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