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mistercow on May 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE

If the features hadn't been useful, it wouldn't have worked. Are you seriously going to argue that their strategy – their explicit strategy – was not incredibly harmful to innovation and competition?

Also saying they "invented" XMLHttpRequest is a stretch. If I make a browser with a nonstandard rot-13 function, did I "invent" JSRot13?

hackinthebochs on May 9, 2012 [–]

How on earth is implementing a new feature harmful to innovation? This blatantly contradictory.

mistercow on May 9, 2012 | [–]

Look up "embrace, extend and extinguish".

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