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>This is the most significant step forward in web browser connectivity since 2004, when Google launched Gmail and AJAX was coined That's not quite right. Micro
by barista 14y ago
>This is the most significant step forward in web browser connectivity since 2004, when Google launched Gmail and AJAX was coined
That's not quite right. Microsoft invented XMLHTTP, the interface which XHR is based on, in '98 or '99 for Outlook Web Access.
- dustismo 14y agoNotice that he said "AJAX was coined" in 2004 not that the technology was invented.
- isnotchicago 14y agoIn the parent's defense, the rest of that paragraph and the chart below it downplay Microsoft's role in favor of Google's, which could be viewed as "not quite right".
- ams6110 14y agoIndeed, myself and others were doing [A]VBAX apps in IE before the term "AJAX" hit the mainstream. Not always async, and using VBScript in the browser instead of Javascript, but loading XML from the server and doing XSLT to build the DOM. It actually was pretty nice, at the time. IE5. You couldn't do things like that in any other browser for years.
- rmc 14y agoYes, XHR was available back then. But it wasn't Ajax. Ajax was invented in '04.
- rmc 14y agoYes, XHR was available back then. But it wasn't Ajax. Ajax was invented in '04.