Re: Outlook Web Access Calendar

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: Outlook Web Access Calendar
Date: 16:18 on 26 Jul 2006
On 7/25/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> wrote:
> >>   itself would run there.
> >
> > The scary scary thing for all you open source fanboys out there is that
> > the set of technologies that became the proto-AJAX were invented for
> > Outlook Web Access some six years ago ....
>
> DHTML?  That's more like nine years...

He's referring to the XMLHTTPRequest object, on which AJAX tends to
depend for network interaction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_support
(I say "tends" to as I realise there are alternatives involving IFRAME
and SCRIPT tags, but XHR's most common)

-- Yoz
There's stuff above here

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