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		manoDev on Feb 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Web Is Becoming Smalltalk > XMLHttpRequest is not a hack. It was deliberately developed by Microsoft as part of Internet Explorer to enable desktop-like functionality in Outlook Web Access. I believe you tried to correct me, but you proved my point even further. Desktop-like functionality on a software meant to navigate between linked documents is simply a broken interaction model.

melchebo on Feb 11, 2013 [–]

Or you see it as a finishing off the implementation of the hypermedia model's original idea of transclusion.

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