Dynamic HTML is not "aka the DOM", nor is XHMLHttpRequest an application platform.
Microsoft developed function calls and API calls which were only available internally, and for preferred enterprise customers, that would fail on Netscape.
In addition, "IE has recently caught up" is hardly the truth and you can visit HTML5test.com or CSS3test.com to test your browser; or visit caniuse.com to browser around to find large gaps and inconsistencies between IE and any other browser (and not just HTML but the web APIs that work everywhere but IE).
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Dynamic HTML is not "aka the DOM", nor is XHMLHttpRequest an application platform.
Microsoft developed function calls and API calls which were only available internally, and for preferred enterprise customers, that would fail on Netscape.
In addition, "IE has recently caught up" is hardly the truth and you can visit HTML5test.com or CSS3test.com to test your browser; or visit caniuse.com to browser around to find large gaps and inconsistencies between IE and any other browser (and not just HTML but the web APIs that work everywhere but IE).