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Yep, 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 interf
by paol 4y ago
Yep, 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;