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> anyone could do it Plugins like flash and java applets were non-starters for many enterprises. XML Data Islands, as I recall, did not do any network request
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
> anyone could do it
Plugins like flash and java applets were non-starters for many enterprises.
XML Data Islands, as I recall, did not do any network requests. They were chunks of XML. Anyone could not do network requests with XML Data Islands.
RSExecute... I looked it up. Ok I stand corrected although it is not clear when that was released for IE.
JSONP? What? JSON did not exist back then. Are you trolling?
- sergeykish 6y agoRSExecute: I've got Microsoft Scripting Libary 1.0a > Copyright 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Versions above are from the article [1]. XML Data Islands network requests: <OBJECT width=0 height=0 classid="clsid:550dda30-0541-11d2-9ca9-0060b0ec3d39" id="xmldso"> </OBJECT> <SCRIPT for=window event=onload> var doc = xmldso.XMLDocument; doc.load("books.xml"); JSONP: I've referred it as an idea of loading data in remote <script> callback. >>>> You could even do that before XmlHttpRequest MSXML is just a widely deployed ActiveX control, not part of the browser like favicon. Anyone could implement it or java applet. [1] https://daurril.org/wrox/ASPToday/990930-191.htm https://daurril.org/wrox/ASPToday/990930-191.htm