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		protomyth on April 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shadow DOM Postscript (and Display Postscript) worked quite well. PDF is also quite nice. We are just pushing HTML way past its original capability.

SimHacker on April 12, 2014 [–]

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently:

used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming.

used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML and CSS for rendering.

used PostScript data instead of XML and JSON for data representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

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