BrendanEich

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by BrendanEich 15d ago
If not for JS, VBScript: VBSConf.us, vQuery.vbs, React.vbs if conceivable.
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by BrendanEich 23d ago
I never did Scheme in the browser, there was no "redo". https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1997032329689346359
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by BrendanEich 3mo ago
Don't trust Wikipedia. I've used the "glue language" phrase myself, but when I did Mocha in May 1995 for Netscape 2, it was to make an HTML-embedded scripting language that could be useful by itself. LiveConnect, by whic
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by BrendanEich 3mo ago
Were you? I have no idea who you are, but the only "other C-level position" was an unspecified throwaway line from Reid Hoffman, who didn't have authority to create any such "Chief of Special Projects" position anyw
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by BrendanEich 3mo ago
I was a real founder (not retconned fake founder). My contributions were almost entirely before taking the CEO job, of course. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544226 "Lots of decline after I left, but I'll
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by BrendanEich 4mo ago
That was when I thought the attribute was added only when the user searched, but it was added even to a FQDN which should not have been done. We didn't make anything from this bug, fixed it quickly, it's a black mark on our shield
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by BrendanEich 4mo ago
Who "he"? I :set et (expand tabs) in vim :-P.
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by BrendanEich 5mo ago
https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1981097992477364231 There's no need for a "Sorry". On the other hand, Brave dying on the wrong hill does not help anyone. This isn't a "wreck other parts o
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by BrendanEich 7mo ago
A mundane reason for why donations to the 501c3 parent Mozilla Foundation can't go to Firefox or Gecko engineers is U.S. tax law. We found out the hard way after the IRS San Jose office said we could run only as a foundation and take &
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by BrendanEich 7mo ago
Rewards has always been opt in, so you don't need to get past it to use Brave. We would not be here without it, but use Chrome or Firefox if you prefer. IMHO "really gross" applies to the Google spyware embedded in Chrome, an
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by BrendanEich 7mo ago
> ... things like "Come home, white man" and other dog-whistles on image-boards Wow, that's a new lie. Do you have any evidence? This isn't something Brave ever did, but it's easy to make unfalsifiable "Ther
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by BrendanEich 7mo ago
We never, as in not ever, offered crypto mining in the browser.
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by BrendanEich 8mo ago
The grants came from our token fund, not users' tokens (no way to buy BAT then). The issue which I found out about late, and fixed right away, was infringing on right to publicity, nothing to do with donations from users' own toke
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by BrendanEich 8mo ago
That blog post is about a partnership (which ended), but you probably saw some sponsored images at the time, in new tab pages (1 of 4 then, I think; the rest are just art images). These are non-tracking, carefully designed (including vettin
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by BrendanEich 9mo ago
That's all b.s. of the ripest kind.
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by BrendanEich 9mo ago
No. I wrote Mocha in C. Where did you hear this CL fish story?
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by BrendanEich 9mo ago
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 */
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by BrendanEich 9mo ago
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.
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by BrendanEich 9mo ago
No, == was strict in the ten day prototype. https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1004425861410402304 https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1922360598995534074
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by BrendanEich 9mo ago
One book covers the DOM and browser APIs, one does not.
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by BrendanEich 10mo ago
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...
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by BrendanEich 11mo ago
"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).
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by BrendanEich 11mo ago
(There was no DOCTYPE for DHTML. The one for HTML 4.01 was not equivalent to a DOCTYPE for DHTML.)
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by BrendanEich 11mo ago
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 inconsis
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Does no one use search engines any longer? Or AI chatbots, the new front end to search engines? Anyway, 2014.
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
If you insist on percentage points not ratios, then how do you apportion blame to me vs the CEOs before me? I was CEO for ten days. I stood up for it to avoid Mozilla going headless longer (Gary Kovacs stepped down by April 2013: https:&#x
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
From the statcounter links I gave: >>> (31.82-14.34)x100/31.82 54 >>> (14.34-2.37)x100/14.35 83 54% drop from peak to when I left, 83% drop after. No one said "didn't happen".
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
On "trend-chasing", a false charge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546212
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Thanks. More info in this thread: https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1752615257615528205
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
I was a cofounder of MDN (originally "DevMo"), and we did not use Opera or other materials, we used Netscape's DevEdge content which was released to us. You may be thinking of a later reformulation to unite with others outsid

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