[LINK] Microsoft is dead

[Michael Still]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 
>> Ironically, Microsoft unintentionally helped create Ajax. The x in
>> Ajax is from the XMLHttpRequest object, which lets the browser
>> communicate with the server in the background while displaying a page.
> [SNIP]
> 
>> - Does that mean that ms holds the IP rights for that command? Are we
>> just waiting for them to assert those 'rights'?
> 
> Interesting point. XMLHttpRequest is an object in Javascript. JS is
> full of objects, like Document (the actual HTML text), Form, Event,
> etc. etc.

Javascript is standardized as ECMA script. I assume all rights had to be
waived (if any existed) to do that.

Mikal