IE was brilliant when it came out. It was MS's strategy of making it free to kill off Netscape and then never updating it to eke a few more years out of the desktop app infrastructure that sucked.
AJAX is older than XMLHTTP Request, virtually you can do AJAX with [i]frames, and this method is not even obsolete, because to my knowledge, that is the only way you could do a file upload(that works even in ancient browsers).
> IE was brilliant when it came out.
That still makes it a curse today.
The customer has chosen (even if the decision was made for them), and that is something that we as developers have to live with.
Not even near. I'm blaming Microsoft for this one.
> The customer has chosen (even if the decision was made for them)
This is self contradictory.
> and that is something that we as developers have to live with
Sorry, but I believe in innovation.