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by zeroth32 1375 days ago
SAP can be quite innovative.

I remember SAP circa 2003. The only think that used XMLHttpRequest (AJAX aka dynamic html) was Outlook web frontend, and SAP web UI. GMail that widely popularized dynamic html did not even existed yet.
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pdpi 1375 days ago
"SAP developers" can mean two different groups of people. The developers who build SAP, and the developers who build the custom stuff that clients need. The former can be quite innovative, but the situation with the latter is pretty damn grim (and I say this having worked in the industry, and my dad still works on it)
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taway19920706 1375 days ago
Did the WebGUI really use AJAX in 2003? IIRC the early versions still used the old standalone (AGate/WGate) ITS, not even the integrated version.
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cygx 1375 days ago
AJAX and DHTML are not synonyms: The latter predates the former and refers to interactivity via client-side scripting.
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