Oh man, I had almost forgotten about when you had to write different ways to read the XHR response depending on which browser you were trying to support.
Right! The thing I asked him about was if XMLHttpRequest would be natively supported instead of having to use an ActiveX object. His reaction was oh, hmm, that sounds kinda cool but nah. At that time dynamic HTML still wasn’t all that old, web pages were still mostly content that just sat there. And now we could eliminate page refreshes and have them be little apps that ran in the browser and interacted with APIs. I was super psyched about this changing the whole face of the web, and that we could lead the way. But sadly by then MS had become all about getting people to re-buy software every few years.
Oh man, I had almost forgotten about when you had to write different ways to read the XHR response depending on which browser you were trying to support.
Right! The thing I asked him about was if XMLHttpRequest would be natively supported instead of having to use an ActiveX object. His reaction was oh, hmm, that sounds kinda cool but nah. At that time dynamic HTML still wasn’t all that old, web pages were still mostly content that just sat there. And now we could eliminate page refreshes and have them be little apps that ran in the browser and interacted with APIs. I was super psyched about this changing the whole face of the web, and that we could lead the way. But sadly by then MS had become all about getting people to re-buy software every few years.