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		Kye on Dec 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) Think of how the web would be different if Microsoft leaned its monopoly power on XMLHttpRequest. Would it have been the test case for API ownership instead of Java? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest

toyg on Dec 4, 2020 [–]

XHR is possibly Microsoft's "Xerox PARC" moment. They held the future in their hands and it just went through their fingers.

bdcravens on Dec 4, 2020 | [–]

They also had VBScript and ActiveX in IE. I think had they held onto XHR it would have gone the same route, and a comparable alternative would have been developed.

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