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> They were the ones who started AJAX and Mozilla reverse engineered it for example. I think you have your answer right there. MS added AJAX as a proprietary
by Lio 8y ago
> They were the ones who started AJAX and Mozilla reverse engineered it for example.
I think you have your answer right there. MS added AJAX as a proprietary feature to make the experience of using Outlook in Explorer richer than in Mozilla.
At the time they were ignoring standards bodies and trying to lock thr web down to running in IE on Windows only. Hence them paying Apple to push a similar (but inferior) version of IE on the Mac.
- mariusmg 8y ago" MS added AJAX as a proprietary feature to make the experience of using Outlook in Explorer richer than in Mozilla." No, they wanted Outllok Web to be closer in usability to Outlook Desktop. They had a problem and they solved it. This is how the web standards body works anyway : somebody does something good/inovative (see ajax, jquery etc etc) and after a while it gets standardized.
- kowdermeister 8y agoThere was no standard to ignore since the whole feature set didn't exist. Firefox is not ignoring a standard by integrating Pocket to the address bar.