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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by ryandvm on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:51PM (#9223315)
It certainly wasn't an act of altruism, but the entire modern web can trace it's AJAXy roots back to Microsoft's decision to eschew web standards. Microsoft added XMLHttpRequest to Internet Explorer so that they could develop Outlook Web Access.

IE may have had utterly stank HTML compatibility, but adding XMLHttpRequest and inventing AJAX was probably the single most profound changeset in the history of the web.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by reustle on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @08:53AM (#9225046)
"Inventing Ajax" does not excuse the behavior though. Plus, I'm sure someone else would have come up with a similar idea not long after.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by wantab on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @08:45PM (#9229610)
Such as not supporting XHTML until IE9.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by Already__Taken on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @05:52AM (#9224435)
Also isn't the css `box-sizing: border-box;` the box model IE wanted to go with in the first place?

[I think this proves what i said right](http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/)

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