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And that isn't even getting to XMLHttpRequest.

Haha, yeah

- Isn't limited to XML

- Isn't limited to HTTP

- The returned object is also the response

Beautifully named.

And the first letter in the XML acronym shouldn't even be X.

Obiously the JS API should be called ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransportProtocolRequest

just as well-thought-through as other parts of the web ecosystem, starting at the scripting language designed in a mere week.

I'm having to touch Spring occasionally nowadays and wow it is a hodgepodge. It really is the backend equivalent of jQuery.