3 ms·
> I see little connection between today's JS frameworks and ActiveX controls. XMLHttpRequest used to be a popular ActiveX control, that introduced ability to p
by 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.