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Well, the W3C's standardization attempts of XHTML were a bust. Microsoft's use of ActiveX was also quite proprietary (only ran on Windows as I recall). At the
by SquareWheel 7y ago
Well, the W3C's standardization attempts of XHTML were a bust. Microsoft's use of ActiveX was also quite proprietary (only ran on Windows as I recall). At the very least it wasn't an open standard.
ECMAScript however is open, very well-supported, and actually works. I see little connection between today's JS frameworks and ActiveX controls. That seems like a stretch of definitions.
- altfredd 7y ago> I see little connection between today's JS frameworks and ActiveX controls. XMLHttpRequest used to be a popular ActiveX control, that introduced ability to programmatically perform web requests at programmer's discretion. Most modern Javascript frameworks can't be used without such ability.
- SquareWheel 7y agoXMLHttpRequest was useful enough to become a standard browser feature. That doesn't prove that ECMA is somehow nonstandard, or even a poor standard. Or that frameworks built on top of it are. Besides, today XHR is being replaced with the fetch API.