How We Got the Favicon (2017)

Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by sergeykish on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:05AM (#24118540)

There was RSExecute, claimed to work with IE3+ and NN3+.

IE4 implemented XML Data Islands with Java Applets, anyone could do it.

MSXML XMLHTTP was ActiveX component, as was one of the crossorigin tools - Flash, anyone could do it.

I have to check JSONP support.

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:43AM (#24119682)

> anyone could do it

Plugins like flash and java applets were non-starters for many enterprises.

XML Data Islands, as I recall, did not do any network requests. They were chunks of XML. Anyone could not do network requests with XML Data Islands.

RSExecute... I looked it up. Ok I stand corrected although it is not clear when that was released for IE.

JSONP? What? JSON did not exist back then. Are you trolling?

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by sergeykish on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:21PM (#24125510)

RSExecute: I've got Microsoft Scripting Libary 1.0a

Versions above are from the article [1].

XML Data Islands network requests:

    <OBJECT width=0 height=0
      classid="clsid:550dda30-0541-11d2-9ca9-0060b0ec3d39"
      id="xmldso">
    </OBJECT>
    <SCRIPT for=window event=onload>
      var doc = xmldso.XMLDocument;
      doc.load("books.xml");

JSONP: I've referred it as an idea of loading data in remote <script> callback.

>>>> You could even do that before XmlHttpRequest

MSXML is just a widely deployed ActiveX control, not part of the browser like favicon. Anyone could implement it or java applet.

[1] https://daurril.org/wrox/ASPToday/990930-191.htm

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