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by sedatk 905 days ago
Besides AJAX, IE introduced CSS and IFRAMEs too as far as I remember.
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There were already competing things in these areas already. They were the ultimate standardizations, but the momentum was already there and something would have standardized. It happened that after crushing Netscape no one bothered to develop the alternatives. I’d note that all of these emerged while Netscape was still a viable business delivering those alternatives. I look at the gap after AJAX and notice nothing really comes along until almost a decade later.