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> Tbf without frames neither mechanism made much sense, (even back than) because it would be horrible to use with form fields.

Frames were the common way to deal with that, but I even did stuff with having a separate "named" browser window.

> Also http/1.1 was 97

IIRC there was support for it in Netscape before it was really a standard.




> IIRC there was support for it in Netscape before it was really a standard.

That is probably true, since x-mixed-replace started the whole chunked transfer encoding.

It’s probably also what really triggered the invention of comet and later xhr. Netscape was way ahead and Microsoft just pushed it out with money, integration, activex? and of course unfair advantage.




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