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> 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
by 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.