Arguably, 1 of the hottest technologies on the Internet two.0 scene is AJAX. Did you know that we invented that? No? Well,
Office 2010, did you know we invented that back in 1999 and everyone else is just now catching up? Ajax Timeline: 1997 – IE 4.0 introduces ability to modify the UI via the DOM and client-side script 1998, 2000, and 2004 – W3C releases or updates standards about the DOM 1999 – Net Explorer includes XMLHttpRequest 2002 – First production Firefox release 2004 – Safari 1.two released with XMLHttpRequest support. 2004 – Google Maps, GMail,
Windows 7 Home Basic Key, and other popular Web apps demonstrate great UI design with AJAX 2005 – Opera 8 released with XMLHttpRequest support 2005 – Adaptive Path coins the term AJAX and makes it popular Sources: Wikipedia, Adaptive Path,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, MSDN Want more? Read: Microsoft invented Ajax: Let's give credit where it's due and a certain Wikipedia entry. Thanks Scott Isaacs,
Office Professional Plus 2010 Key, Microsoft Windows Live Architect,
Office 2010 Pro Plus, for your technical contributions to the world! (Click here to read Scott’s blog!) Jim