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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by oblio on Saturday April 02, 2016 @05:37PM (#11413592)
The web as envisioned early on by Netscape was supposed to have apps much sooner than it did. Once Microsoft swept aside Netscape by killing their business it basically froze development on IE.

They made one mistake: XMLHttpRequest (probably the last big feature added to IE before the freeze) and we got lucky with Firefox.

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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by ams6110 on Saturday April 02, 2016 @06:23PM (#11413807)
Netscape's vision was java applets though, right? The only thing I can remember that was worse in a browser than Flash. Perhaps we owe Microsoft some thanks.
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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by eganist on Saturday April 02, 2016 @10:11PM (#11414605)
ActiveX.

Don't ever let yourself forget ActiveX.

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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by carey on Saturday April 02, 2016 @11:00PM (#11414719)
XMLHTTP was originally an ActiveX technology, though, from the Outlook team; it wasn't originally developed as part of IE. I guess it wasn't until Mozilla and Apple added a native version that it really took off.
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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by frik on Sunday April 03, 2016 @01:21AM (#11415031)
Actually KHTML and Safari supported it earlier, MozillaSuite/Firefox initial support was broken and only when it was fixed in Firefox around 2004 it got tradtion among devs.
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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by eganist on Saturday April 02, 2016 @10:13PM (#11414607)
Test
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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by justinlardinois on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:20AM (#11419391)
I'm not sure Microsoft's lack of development on Internet Explorer in that era was due to an actual desire to kill the web. It simply had no competitors, so there was no motivation to make the product any better.
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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by oblio on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:41AM (#11420766)
Microsoft killed Netscape to kill the thick client planned by Netscape to commoditize Windows. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft (just like Apple today) didn't want the web to succeeded as an app delivery method.
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