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They did invent Ajax (AFAIK). So it's not all bad. And IIRC Canvas was in Safari before it became standard (it is now right?). I don't think vendor specific e
by ssmoot 14y ago
They did invent Ajax (AFAIK). So it's not all bad.
And IIRC Canvas was in Safari before it became standard (it is now right?).
I don't think vendor specific extensions are necessarily a bad thing. The bigger issue with IE was just that it stagnated so long. If the IE6 to IE10 cycle, which happened over just a few years, would have happened when it should of, I don't think we'd have nearly as much to complain about when it came to browsers.
The Java situation was a bit different I guess, but honestly that may have a lot more to do with the state of non-MS platforms not really having an analogue to the J/Direct and RNI stuff? Wasn't really into Java at the time so I dunno if that's fair or not.
- calinet6 14y ago> They did invent Ajax (AFAIK). So it's not all bad. May be true—but the mechanism for XMLHTTPRequest (and async requests in general, through iframes or other ways) was around far before anyone had the bright idea to do anything with it, so it was more of a stroke of luck.
- ssmoot 14y agoI think you misread me. They (AFAIK) invented the first XmlHttpRequest implementation years before anyone else. In fact, there's comments/submissions on this site describing developer experiences with AJAX on IE before anyone called it that. I'm not claiming MS coined the term AJAX. They didn't. I am claiming some bright people there saw the potential in it years before anyone else, and then released an actual implementation you could use. No idea who that was, if it was a lone shark sneaking it into the system, or if it was a team/management effort that saw the potential in the idea and ran with it, but that person deserves a cookie.