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Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by stan_rogers on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:46PM (#22410523)
Loading into a hidden or pixel-sized iframe (or ilayer in NS) was a thing before XMLHttpRequest as well. In what would now seem a scary technique, you would use JS to load more JS (plus data, of course) that would put the new data into the iframe's host page.
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Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by steego on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:31AM (#22412609)
I used Remote Scripting as well. It was a reliable enough hack that we built a lot of stuff on it. But I don’t think it was intended to be used that way when Netscape released JavaScript in ‘95.
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