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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.
by 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 agoIf by "mistake", you mean trying to get a mail client to run well over the web ...
- ergo98 16y agoAs 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.