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MatthewPhillips
on April 29, 2013
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Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1...
I love getting history like this. I'll add to the question if any Microsoftians are around: who decided to call it XMLHttpRequest?
alexhop
on April 29, 2013
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I did (Alex Hopmann). The easiest way to ship it in IE5 at that relatively late stage (right before IE5b2) was to put it in msxml.dll so we had to put the XML twist on it for that to make sense.
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