Korea's Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture

Re:Korea's Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture by ahpeeyem on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @05:54AM (#905153)

This sounds like what could have happened everywhere had AJAX and web 2.0 not happened. I remember the early 2000s when ActiveX seemed like one of few options to deliver functionality that wasn't thought possible with just HTML and Javascript - and it was even reasonable to go ahead and use it because everyone was on IE6 anyway.

Dark days.

Edit: Oh, it's actually law! Oh my...

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Re:Korea's Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture by DougBTX on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @08:26AM (#905286)

XMLHttpRequest is an ActiveX control in IE6...

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Re:Korea's Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture by ahpeeyem on Monday November 02, 2009 @09:31AM (#916827)

Sorry I was referring more to the cultural or mindset change that made it cool and trendy to build Web 2.0 style apps. Events like the coining of the term "AJAX", as well as things like Google Maps and Gmail really pushing the boundaries of what everyone perceived could be done with just HTML/CSS/Javascript.

My theory was that the mindset shift didn't happen in South Korea for whatever reason, meaning nobody moved away from ActiveX - but as it turns out, that reason is legislative.

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Re:Korea's Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture by bensummers on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @11:00AM (#905487)

But it's installed by default and doesn't require the user to download random code or say "yes" to running it.

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