The Living Dead: Visual Basic
Having covered most of the needed ground related to JavaScript, it’s time for an honorable mention of the long-forgotten contender for the scripting throne. Despite 15 years of lingering in almost complete obscurity, browser-side VBScript is still supported in Internet Explorer. In most aspects, Microsoft’s language is supposed to be functionally equivalent to JavaScript, and it has access to exactly the same Document Object Model APIs and other built-in functions as JavaScript. But, as one might expect, some tweaks and extensions are present—for example, a couple of VB-specific functions in place of the JavaScript built-ins.
There is virtually no research into the security properties of VBScript, the robustness of ...
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