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by jamesbritt 4841 days ago
The business case for IE is to hold back the progress of the web, ...

Right? We would have had AJAX and DHTML so much sooner if it wasn't for Microsoft holding things back.

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Haha, that's funny... because the XMLHttpRequest thing, the main enabler of Ajax, is actually a Microsoft invention,or, should I say: "Microsoft did it first.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_supp...