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Sad to see AIM go for sentimental reasons, but I can't say it's too surprising. The world has moved on. Technically, one of the more interesting aspects of AIM
by mschaef 9y ago
Sad to see AIM go for sentimental reasons, but I can't say it's too surprising. The world has moved on.
Technically, one of the more interesting aspects of AIM was that it was built on Boxely... one of the earlier (~2004-2006) markup based rendering engines. Boxely was a project by Joe Hewitt (FireBug, etc.) in which the UI was defined entirely in XML with stylesheets and Javascript to make it live. These days it's pretty standard to do this in a browser, but back then it was trendsetting.
- mulletbum 9y agoI am unsure how this is true considering AIM was around when I was in highschool back in 1999-2003. If Boxely didn't come around till 2004 that would be like the AIM reboot era.
- mschaef 9y agoAIM Triton. Not the original.
- jhayward 9y agoIt was eventually built on Boxely in the middle 2000's but the original AIM HTML component was from an early acquisition of, IIRC, Booklink. This was in the Win3.1 days circa 1996-97.