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Ajax?
by MikusR 4y ago
Ajax?
- paol 4y agoYep, XMLHttpRequest was literally the only thing to come out of years of Microsoft tenure. Fun fact: it was added so that they could make the Outlook web interface. Edit: well, that and ActiveX, but that's not a good thing...
- fullstop 4y agoMicrosoft exposed virtually all elements in the DOM. Netscape was extremely limited in this regard.
- p_l 4y agoThey also definitely advanced the CSS more than Netscape. modern DOM, Ajax, modern CSS, bunch of other small details of JS, all iirc came from IE.
- scotty79 4y agoDevelopment between IE4 and 5.5 was massive.
- paol 4y agoYou and the grandparents are thinking of a slightly earlier time. Yes IE jumped over Netscape massively in technical terms. Then Netscape died an MS, having mission accomplished, basically stopped touching the browser.
- layer8 4y agoThe problem wasn’t per se that MS stopped (having a stable platform that doesn’t change continuously is in principle a good thing), it was most of all the many quirks, inconsistencies and bugs that IE had.
- fullstop 4y agoEven among browsers with the same version numbers! I recall array.push or array.pop missing on some Windows PCs with identical IE6 versions. It had to do with the upgrade path that the PC took.
- asddubs 4y agoie also invented display:grid;