But they probably did it by mistake or at least inadvertently. If they had known what would occur they probably won't have done it.
Agreed.
> If they had known what would occur they probably won't have done it.
Huh?
http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/How-I-Came-To-Despise-AJAX...
It was first added "to" Internet Explorer by the MSXML team (by a guy sneaking in some functionality for the Exchange Outlook Web Access team). It was actually a great example of the power of modular "ActiveX" (which in that case was abused to mean simply COM) scripting -- they didn't need to release a new browser to support it. Of course there are endless downsides to reusing a plug-in structure that had little controls or security, however it did have some merits.