When making an xmlhttprequest from a website the browser will restrict you to the site from which the script came. This is a security precaution. If sites were able to tell the browser to make requests from other domains then they would be able to DDOS a site with a users browser. There are legitimate [...]
Many people have been commenting on how its nice to see Microsoft taking a dose of its own medicine, but I disagree. Sure seeing Microsoft get hit with a massive fine and an explosive ultimatum is pleasing the subject matter isn’t. Patents were originally made to help the small guy, to aid innovation and so that inventors could reveal their inventions without fear of having their idea stolen from them and used to make [...]
