I'd like to know the first guy to send json over the wire starting the ajax craze.
I think Crockford (http://crockford.com/) -- he is mentioned in the RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627
Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
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Re: Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
#12I'd like to know the first guy to send json over the wire starting the ajax craze.
Douglas Crockford, as that was the first thing JSON (as a data format) was used for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#History
Re: Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
#13I'd like to know the first guy to send json over the wire starting the ajax craze.
Douglas Crockford, as that was the first thing JSON (as a data format) was used for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#History
Well, it's possible an object was transmitted as JavaScript source (to be decoded using eval) before the JSON spec existed.
Re: Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
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#15Who's idea was it, and who built it? While history generally gets rewritten towards a simplified, single-victor model (e.g. Edison and electricity, Ford and assembly lines), there is no simple answer to this because the need for a scripted way to load and consume content was very widespread. There were a number of solutions at the time. The most prevalent was simply having a hidden iframe (which actually worked quite…
The only HTTP suite that comes to mind is Indy, or WinShoes back then
Re: Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
#16I'd like to know the first guy to send json over the wire starting the ajax craze.
Ajax craze started with XML. JSON came later.
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#17It would be remiss to not mention Shawn Bracewell in the discussion. According to Alex Hopmann, Shawn was responsible for adding asynchronous support: "Step one was to bring the code up to production quality so we got Shawn Bracewell, one of the devs on the OWA team to take it over. Being a smart guy he promptly threw away all of my code and rewrote it in a more solid fashion, adding async support, error handling and…
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#19I'd like to know the first guy to send json over the wire starting the ajax craze.
Ajax craze started with XML. JSON came later.
+1 -- let's not confuse JSON with AJAX. JSON is a data format, but AJAX is an async technique for exchanging data between a browser and a webserver. It originally used XML (the 'X' in AJAX).
Re: Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
#20Who's idea was it, and who built it? While history generally gets rewritten towards a simplified, single-victor model (e.g. Edison and electricity, Ford and assembly lines), there is no simple answer to this because the need for a scripted way to load and consume content was very widespread. There were a number of solutions at the time. The most prevalent was simply having a hidden iframe (which actually worked quite…
Just because an invention appears to be inevitable, it doesn't mean the actual inventor doesn't deserve a ton of credit.