> but launched it forward (accidentally) again by forgetting that they'd implemented XHR, which allowed AJAX and the rest of the interactive techniques.
In fairness, Microsoft introduced an ActiveX control that could load external resources without leaving the page. A few versions in fact that were not compatible with one another.
It was the Netscape/Mozilla folks who gave it its own fixed API independent of ActiveX that Microsoft and others later adopted years later and would become a standard, complete with wacky capitalization.
It was implemented and delivered by Chris Blizzard shortly after I had asked him for it at the Mozilla Developers Conference in 2000. (To be clear, I did no work on it and am not trying to take credit. The team was asking for feedback from attendees, and we were a relatively small gathering back then. Just establishing I was an eyewitness to the events.)
In fairness, Microsoft introduced an ActiveX control that could load external resources without leaving the page. A few versions in fact that were not compatible with one another.
It was the Netscape/Mozilla folks who gave it its own fixed API independent of ActiveX that Microsoft and others later adopted years later and would become a standard, complete with wacky capitalization.
It was implemented and delivered by Chris Blizzard shortly after I had asked him for it at the Mozilla Developers Conference in 2000. (To be clear, I did no work on it and am not trying to take credit. The team was asking for feedback from attendees, and we were a relatively small gathering back then. Just establishing I was an eyewitness to the events.)