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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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