Probably because enterprise was writing the web of 1998 in 2005. Outside it Firefox was gaining traction, web standards movement was in its golden years (IMHO w

Probably because enterprise was writing the web of 1998 in 2005. Outside it Firefox was gaining traction, web standards movement was in its golden years (IMHO what we have now is a big regression), AJAX was a fresh kid on the block… Fun times.