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Garrett Smith
Personal blog · garrettsmith.net/blogprogrammingweb
Garrett Smith's personal blog at garrettsmith.net covers programming and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Microsoft invented Ajax: Let's give credit where it's due (2006)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Garrett Smith's 2006 post on Microsoft and AJAX, arguing Outlook Web Access, not Gmail, pioneered client-side UI updates. Commenters cite it when discussing the history of AJAX and SPAs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Microsoft invented Ajax: Let's give credit where it's due (2006)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-13
What Hacker News says?
It started way before GMail client. OWA was the first application to partially manipulate the UI on the client. GMail was the first decent app doing it in a modern way. Even AJAX is invented for OWA. https://garrettsmith.net/blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inv...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inven_1.html
on “SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)”Submitted Microsoft invented Ajax: Let's give credit where it's due (2006) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"This is the most significant step forward in web browser connectivity since 2004, when Google launched Gmail and AJAX was coined." Microsoft --> AJAX[1]. And yes, I know that they aren't saying that Google --> AJAX but it kinda leaves that impression. ---- http://garrettsmith.net/blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inve...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inven_1.html
on “WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web”BTW: MICROSOFT invented Ajax. Really! See Garret Smith on this topic. http://garrettsmith.net/blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inve... They didn't know what they had...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inven_1.html
on “Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s, Then Blew It”