Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017)
by sergeykish on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:34PM
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There were other interfaces too - RSExecute should have worked with IE3+ and NN3+ [1].
And XMLHTTP while shipped quickly was hardly accidental. MSXML was Microsofts big push for XML, it was always meant to fetch data without page reload (XML data islands in IE4). And it was ActiveX component which was bringing Microsoft to the Web strategy.
And XMLHTTP while shipped quickly was hardly accidental. MSXML was Microsofts big push for XML, it was always meant to fetch data without page reload (XML data islands in IE4). And it was ActiveX component which was bringing Microsoft to the Web strategy.
Another famous ActiveX-based software - Flash.
[1] https://daurril.org/wrox/ASPToday/990930-191.htm