For millions of VB programmers, VBScript provided an easy entry into Web programming, but limited client-side VBScript support and the continued absence of a VBScript.NET should serve as an early warning for VBScript aficionados. Get out while the getting's good.
by A. Russell Jones, Executive Editor
May 27, 2003
ack in the early days of the browser wars, Microsoft created a huge incentive for existing Visual Basic developers to transition easily into building Web applications by creating a cut-down, interpreted version of Visual Basic called VBScript. VBScript ran as one of two languages supplied with Microsoft's Scripting Runtime library. The other language in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library was Microsoft's JScript—a knock-off of Netscape's JavaScript.
JavaScript quickly gained credibility and went on to become standardized as ECMAScript. But, in characteristic fashion, Microsoft bucked industry trends by making Internet Explorer support VBScript even while all other browsers standardized on JavaScript.
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ack in the early days of the browser wars, Microsoft created a huge incentive for existing Visual Basic developers to transition easily into building Web applications by creating a cut-down, interpreted version of Visual Basic called VBScript. VBScript ran as one of two languages supplied with Microsoft's Scripting Runtime library. The other language in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library was Microsoft's JScript—a knock-off of Netscape's JavaScript.
