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> ... IE6 introduced a lot of useful features back then. Cannot agree more. People tend to forget things like AJAX came from IE.

• ecaradec 16y ago
  But they probably did it by mistake or at least inadvertently. If they had known what would occur they probably won't have done it.
  • theycallmemorty 16y ago
    > But they probably did it by mistake or at least inadvertently. Agreed. > If they had known what would occur they probably won't have done it. Huh?
    • shadowfox 16y ago
      If by "mistake", you mean trying to get a mail client to run well over the web ...
  • ergo98 16y ago
    As someone who was using "AJAX" quite extensively using hidden IFRAMEs and then in 1999, XMLHttpRequest -- long before a Johnny-come-lately coined AJAX, I had to comment on this- http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/How-I-Came-To-Despise-AJAX/How-I-Came-To-Despise-AJAX.html http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/How-I-Came-To-Despise-AJAX... It was first added "to" Internet Explorer by the MSXML team (by a guy sneaking in some functionality for the Exchange Outlook Web Access team). It was actually a great example of the power of modular "ActiveX" (which in that case was abused to mean simply COM) scripting -- they didn't need to release a new browser to support it. Of course there are endless downsides to reusing a plug-in structure that had little controls or security, however it did have some merits.