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The phrase "once bitten, twice shy" comes to mind, except instead of "once", more like "a million bazillion times".
by serve_yay 12y ago
The phrase "once bitten, twice shy" comes to mind, except instead of "once", more like "a million bazillion times".
- guelo 12y agoYou mean like how entire industries were created after being bitten by IE's XMLHttpRequest?
- idbehold 12y agoNo, that only happened once. He's talking about the "million bazillion times" they ignored standards in favor of proprietary APIs which resulted in much pain and suffering for both developers and consumers alike.
- serve_yay 12y agoNo?
- smacktoward 12y agoWhich Microsoft, in classic Microsoft fashion, completely failed to recognize the significance of. XMLHttpRequest was used only by Outlook Web Access (the kludgey old MS Exchange webmail client), and never took off until Google saw the potential in it and used it in Google Maps.