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XMLHttpRequest is not a hack. It was deliberately developed by Microsoft as part of Internet Explorer to enable desktop-like functionality in Outlook Web Access. [http://www.alexhopmann.com/xmlhttp.htm]. It was then copied by Netscape, and it spread from there.


> XMLHttpRequest is not a hack. It was deliberately developed by Microsoft as part of Internet Explorer to enable desktop-like functionality in Outlook Web Access.

I believe you tried to correct me, but you proved my point even further.

Desktop-like functionality on a software meant to navigate between linked documents is simply a broken interaction model.


Or you see it as a finishing off the implementation of the hypermedia model's original idea of transclusion.




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