On 7/25/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> itself would run there.
>
> The scary scary thing for all you open source fanboys out there is that
> the set of technologies that became the proto-AJAX were invented for
> Outlook Web Access some six years ago ....
DHTML? That's more like nine years...
He's referring to the XMLHTTPRequest object, on which AJAX tends to
depend for network interaction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_support
(I say "tends" to as I realise there are alternatives involving IFRAME
and SCRIPT tags, but XHR's most common)
-- Yoz
