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The Gift of Code

In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript

So much so that among the many consequences of that era was a fissure in HTML standards, when a faction of browser makers split off fromT the W3C to create the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, also known as the WHATWG. After the acquisition, Flash pushed ActionScript even further, bringing in a set of features that couldn’t even be found in the version of JavaScript running browsers (chief among them were extendable classes inside of the language, which never fully caught on). With their combined strength, it felt like Adobe and Mozilla might be able to use Tamarin to roll over the sleeping giant Microsoft had let linger and actually get a new version of JavaScript drafted, standardized and widely adopted.

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