Comment by jbverschoor

Probably 2005.

2002, I was using “JSRS”, and returning http 204/no content, which causes the browser to NOT refresh/load the page.

Just for small interactive things, like a start/pause button for scheduled tasks. The progress bar etc.

But yeah, in my opinion we lost about 15 years of proper progress.

The network is the computer came true

The SUN/JEE model is great.

It’s just that monopolies stifle progress and better standards.

Standards are pretty much dead, and everything is at the application layer.

That said.. I think XSLT sucks, although I haven’t touched it in almost 20 years. The projects I was on, there was this designer/xslt guru. He could do anything with it.

XPath is quite nice though