“Any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript.” — Atwood’s Law, stated by Jeff Atwood in a blog post titled “The Principle of Least Power,” July 17, 2007
Before anything like an Android device or iPhone existed, desktop computers were the battleground for the browser wars. The battle involved billions of dollars invested by a number of companies, all based on the premise that whoever ruled the desktop browser market would own the internet. Today, mobile devices account for nearly half of all website traffic. Back in the 1990s, however, almost all of the action on the web came from desktop machines, and the vast majority of those desktop machines were running some flavor of Windows.