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XMLHttpRequest long predates the foundation of WHATWG. XMLHttpRequest was introduced with IE5 in 2001. WHATWG wasn't founded until 2004, when its first mailing
by denton-scratch 3y ago
XMLHttpRequest long predates the foundation of WHATWG. XMLHttpRequest was introduced with IE5 in 2001. WHATWG wasn't founded until 2004, when its first mailing list started.
- JimDabell 3y agoIf you check my comment again, I’m saying it was abandoned after WHATWG formalised XHR. It existed a long time before that. I think XHR was a little earlier, but they were roughly contemporaneous. And of course, people were doing XHR stuff before XHR existed with things like invisible iframes, but those were just hacks.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> It ended up being abandoned when XMLHttpRequest was made the standard by WHATWG I think. "It" was using the Document object to load a URL. WHATWG was not responsible for standardizing XMLHTTPRequest.
- JimDabell 3y agohttps://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#specification-history https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#specification-history